[plug] Bootup services

Andrew Pamment apamment at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 26 19:22:11 WST 2002



Mike Holland wrote:

> 
> That would seem logical, and Andrew said a similir thing, but a quick look
> in the /etc/rc* directories shows that is not the case at all. Rather
> than matched pairs of S & K, its either one or the other.
>   The 'init' program actually knows nothing about these links and rc*
> directories - they are a messy hack (IMHO) added by SystemV. From init(8):

this just occured to me on the way home, but a lot of services don't 
need to have a script to tell them to shutdown. which is proberly why 
you don't see all the Kxx ones you expect to see..

when you halt, it issues a SIGTERM and they get the idea..

andrew

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