On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Alan Mead wrote:

> At 01:32 PM 6/6/00 , rpjday wrote:
> >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"??
> 
> Oh shit, I have been unclear.  I meant 'ln -s ../init.d/firewall S40ipchains'
> 
> The 'ln -s' part is fine.  The entry in the DIRECTORY must have a capital 
> 'S'.  I read somewhere recently that one way to disable a service (so it 
> doesn't start) without removing the symbolic link (e.g., because it is 
> temporarily) is to change the capital 'S' to lowercase in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d .

yeah, i just noticed that based on a previous post.  my misunderstanding.

rday


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