> a recommend list of daemons to remove. I deleted the ones they
> recommended (using DrakConf). Then I restarted my system.
I don't believe you deleted any files. My interpretation of this statement is
that you went into Startup Services and deselected these daemons. All this
does is affect whether they are loaded, not whether they are still on your hard
drive. They should all still be in /etc/rc.d/init.d.
> What I have tried!
You're on the right track.
> I was able to logon the new (failing) machine as linux level: 3 as root.
> Went to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and checked the files between the two machines.
> The following files were missing on the failing machine:
> S50inet
> S25netfs
> S10network
> S05kudzu
Were these the only ones you deselected in Drakconf?
> I tried using linuxconf (on both machines), but I could not get it to
> work (sorry I am a newbie).
Check to see if it's there. The executable is called linuxconf and it's in
/bin. It could be that your path is messed up. You are trying to do this as
root, right?
If you can get it going you can go to ControlPanel->systems services and set
the daemons back to automatic as they should show up there as "manual".
I noticed that all the files were symbolic
> links so I did ...................... ln -s ../init.d/inet
You're heading down the right road. When Linux boots those links execute the
processes (executables in /etc/rc.d/init.d). What you'll find is that many
of the ones in rc3.d are replicated in rc5.d, or should be. Depending on what
you've actually deleted, you may be able to get rebooted into X by simply
making sure that what's in rc3.d is also in rc5.d.
> for all the missing files (changing the /inet as needed). I can see some
I don't know if its just the shorthand of your msg but that syntax won't make a
link.
What you need is:
ln -s ../init.d/inet S50inet
> I can boot to level 3 so I can logon as root and do things, but I have
> no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm fairly confident that if you create identical links in rc5.d that you have
in rc3.d, you'll be back in business.
Cheers --- Larry
