[wplug] runlevel question

[Vanco, Donald]

Doug Green wrote:
> 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 RH boxen just insure there's no "Kxxxxx"(your atalkd or whatever it might
be) file in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or rc5.d  - unless of course it's started via
rc.local (ugh) in which case you'll have to hand edit and entries that
control killing the process.  Or remove the S & K files and edit some other
script to start it manually.

Why in the heck do you have a multi-user system that's constantly bouncing
between runlevels 3 & 5???

Don


> 
> 
> 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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