>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
>
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > I'll try this first thing tomorrow morning ... but i can see the synbolic
> > link in the directory listing ...
> >
> > i really hope -S does it ... running a Linux box was my idea, all my
> > colleagues wanted NT ... i'd hate to end up looking silly :)
> >
> > anurag
> >
> > ---
> > At 11:21 AM 6/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >At 10:36 AM 6/6/00 , Anurag Jalan wrote:
> > >>I have created a symbolic link to the firewall script in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/
> > >>using
> > >>ln -s ../init.d/firewall s40ipchains
> > >
> > >I believe a capital 'S' is required.
>
> capital "S" refers to overriding the backup suffix. if you're just
> making a symbolic link, small "s" is the way to go. could the
> original poster provide the rationale for the capital "S"??
>
> rday
The command should be (while in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d):
ln -s ../init.d/firewall S40ipchains
The "system" is not looking for scripts that start with a lower-case
s. The capital S is what the system startup script (rc.sysinit IIRC)
looks for. It does something along the lines of:
for script in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S*
do
$script # run that there script
done
# this is grossly oversimplified, truncated, and abbreviated, so
please don't flame me :)
Have a look at the script if you're wondering. It is started by
/etc/inittab (again IIRC).
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