[wplug] runlevel question

[William Powell]

Well, as I understand runlevels, the only time a run level would change 
is if you use run-level 3 with only a command line log-in screen for 
each user.  The user would use "startx" if they wanted to work in the 
the GUI of their choice.  Each user starting the X-Server in this 
fashion will not switch run-levels.

If the system however starts in Run-level 5, there will be a graphical 
login determined by the xdm (display manager) that the system is using 
and the runlevel will not change as users log in and out.

So, if your "?talkd" is started as part of one of the init scripts, 
unless a user specifically changes the run-level, which should not be 
neccesary, it should continue to run without problems.

Bill


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 Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:44, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 07 January 2003 14:27, Doug Green wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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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