Frank Zhang said: > I am using SuSE 8.0 > my question is, when you switch to run level 3, the server will stop the > daemon process which Kxxxx will do, then start the daemon process which > Sxxxx will do ? > and under /etc/init.d/rc0.d, I did not see any Kxxxxx scripts, so when you > switch to run level 0, the server just kill all processes? if I have > database, then we want to garcefully shut down the database. I'm not too up on SUSE, but init 0 should run every K* script you have in your current run level before switching you to run level 0 (shutdown). At least that's how most SysVish Linux boxes work. -- Scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html