rcS

[Alex Smith]

Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Looking at the script for rcS, I notice the "start on startup" and "stop 
> on runlevel" lines.  Having initialized the system, mounted drives, 
> start networking, etc. - why would we stop those processes on entering a 
> single- or multi-user state?

These won't be stopped when the job is stopped, since the rcS SysV 
script only runs the scripts with the start parameter. The stopping of 
these is handled by the shutdown scripts. Stopping this job will only 
stop execution of the script if it is running.

Thanks,
Alex

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Alex Smith
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