[wplug] runlevel question

Brian Sammon brians+ at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Jan 7 19:08:24 EST 2003


> 	It's best to look into the actual run level directories and see what
> files are marked beginning with S (Start when entering this run level) and K
> (Kill when leaving this run level).  I have no idea what the logic might be

I'm pretty sure K is (Kill when _entering_ this runlevel).
I think the idea is that the S entries are things it wants running in that 
level, and K entries are things it wants not running in that level, and 
anything not mentioned, it doesn't care about.

> for a given service in a GUI tool, but I can say with relative certainty
> that it has no contingency for "leaving runlevel x then going to runlevel y"
> - it merely sets things up to start on init enter or kill on init exit.





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