On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:25:18PM -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > Yes, that's what I wanted to know with both questions: if the current > system is smart enough to know which services to shut down and what not > to when changing runlevels. Just by looking at the contents > of /etc/rc<RL>.d/, it just seems so flat (no hierarchy info) that it's > possible to think that the system might actually be shutting down all > services and restarting them in the new run-level. I think you're looking for /etc/rc, which additionally checks for the presence or absence of a /var/lock/subsys file which matches the script's name, in order to decide whether or not to skip stopping or starting the service. HTH, Nalin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list