On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 12:56 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Bradley wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 14:24 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > >>> Whoops! In my previous comment on this, I neglected to mention you > >>> really need to run /etc/rc.d/rc with the desired runlevel to force the > >>> /etc/rc.d/rcX.d stuff to go. In other words, if you do "telinit 3", > >>> then you should also do "/etc/rc.d/rc 3" after it. > >>> > >> I don't think this is right. AFAIK the change in run level causes the > >> script to be run automatically. Note that on F9 the mechanism is > >> different from on previous Fedoras as it now uses the new upstart > >> system, but a quick look at /etc/event.d/rc3 shows an explicit call to > >> "exec /etc/rc.d/rc 3". (The OP doesn't mention which version of Fedora > >> he has but the new system is set up to emulate the old behaviour). > >> > >> poc > > Well, for all who are interested, I am running FC8 (haven't had time to > > do a full system backup to prepare for FC9) and I have checked all all > > of the K** and S** files are where they are suppose to be but telinit > > doesn't run them all for some reason. I have chosen to use run level 4 > > for the backups and it has all of the K** files but only two S** files > > (the way I want it) but when I run telinit 4, it only "kills" two or so > > and leaves the others running. > > After your "telinit 4", have you tried "/etc/rc.d/rc 4"? > > AFAIK, telinit does NOT fire up the /etc/rc.d stuff by itself and that's > how the K* and S* stuff get run. As has been pointed out what you say is not true. Changes runlevel should cause the correct rc* files to run. Check the man page of telinit. There must bew something else that is wrong. Are you running it from a virtual terminal as root? -- ======================================================================= If in doubt, mumble. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
