On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 18:41, Jason Williams wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I was playing around with our mail server today when I came across a few > ideas that I would like to implement on my mail server. > > My mail server is currently running postfix. > The server boots to run level 3 > What I found interesting when I was looking in the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d > directory was that postfix as the following setup: > > S80postfix -> ../init.d/postfix > > Which I understand starts postfix with a priority of 80. >
Be careful about using the word priority. the numbers are used to set the order services are started > But where im confused is how come there is no kill for postfix? To my > understanding I thought there would be a kill option as well in case the > machine goes down or a reboot. Is that wrong in assuming? rl 6 or 0 has all the kill stuff since that is what gets called at reboot > > Secondly, I have two other programs that I would like to start up on boot: > amavisd-new and clamav. I was thinking that I could just put symlinks into > the rc3.d directory and put them as the following: > > S81clamav -> ../init.d/clamd > S82amavisdnew -> ../init.d/amavisdnew > > That should start both of those process right after postfix, right? > yes assuming that the scripts have the mandatory start clause in it. All files starting with a S will be called with start as the first argument. > However, what happens when I reboot or shutdown lets say? > This is where im confused? IIRC shutdown -h does the equivalent to telinit 0 shutdown -r or reboot doe telinit 6 the key to all this is the /etc/rc.d/rc script this is where all those links get used. Seems like RH had a good tutorial on the Boot process at one time but it has been several years since I looked for it. man chkconfig has some info about what these scripts should look like HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
