On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:03:34 +0100, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, I agree that being able to nominate a runlevel at boot time is > a good thing. But I think it would be more consistent to do it > by specifying it the same way that it is specified in inittab or > to telinit, and the same way it is reported by 'who -r'.... > > That is, they should all use numeric runlevels, or they should all > use text runlevels. It is the inconsistency that I don't like...
I agree. The worst part about switching from one *nix version to another is trying to figure out how that particular distro chose to implement the runlevels. > > As far as the dependencies go, are you sure they are checked at > script execution time? Normally it would be when the script was > added to the runlevel that the sequencing would be done (ie in gentoo > when rc-update was run). > I'm not sure. The documenation at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-hppa.xml?part=2&chap=4 seems to indicate that it's a runtime thing (when you execute 'stop', it'll also stop all the services that depend on that one init-script). > And I don't think just running all the scripts is enough to change > runlevels. Normally you have to work out the difference between the > old runlevel and the new, shutdown the things in the old runlevel > that weren't in the new, and only start the things in the new > runlevel that weren't in the old. That is why it is best to > do the change with 'telinit'. True, when switching between runlevels, you might want some services to stop. So, you'd probably need to create a more intelligent shell script (unless there is already a way to switch between runlevels). -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
