[wplug] runlevel question

[Doug Green]

I'm not sure that I know how to monitor a process while switching
runlevels in this case. Let me be more specific- I want to run
netatalk/atalkd, which (according to the docs) does NOT like to restart.
In short, I need keep it running and avoid it from restarting despite
switching runlevels as users log in/out of the machine. I guess I should
keep it starting in runlevel 3 then?? Thanks,
Doug


On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:44, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
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> On Tuesday 07 January 2003 14:27, Doug Green wrote:
> > Hi all-
> > I am using RH8.0, and there is a very nice tool to edit what services
> > are associated with a given runlevel. My question is simple: if I set
> > a service for runlevel 3 does that mean it is present in runlevel 5
> > as well, or is it shutdown when the system enters a different
> > runlevel? It makes sense that runlevel 5 processes will shut down in
> > the transition to runlevel 3, but I don't know about the reverse.
> 
> All runlevels have start and stop scripts, so leaving runlevel 5 should 
> stop its runlevel-specific services (like xdm, obviously). But why 
> don't you just try it?
> 
> Activate something like xinetd for a given runlevel, and then switch 
> back and forth, monitoring the process status as you go along. Pretty 
> simple to establish what's happening. Hey, this is UNIX :-)
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