>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
itz> Why is it this way? Well, there's really no way to tell init to itz> execute programs upon _exiting_ a runlevel, or upon a transition itz> from one level to another; the /etc/inittab that defines itz> runlevels is one-dimensional. So the transition must be defined itz> independently of the old level. Sven> In their manual, SuSE document that upon changing from say Sven> runlevel 2 to 3, first all links matching /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/K* Sven> get executed and then the links matching Sven> /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/S*. (Funnily they have init.d under /sbin and Sven> not /etc) Maybe that's how SuSE does it, but not Debian. Sven> "specification" for this? Or does it simply not matter? :) AFAIK there's no written standard for this yet, but soon there will be (the Linux Standard Base). You can check their drafts. The original System V init did it the Debian way, I believe. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
