[H-GEN] Boot Up sequence

Jason Parker ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au
Fri Sep 26 03:59:57 EDT 1997


> > I disagree.  (I'm good at that :).  K means that you want the program
> > stopped when going into that runlevel, but there is no point in trying
> > to stop it running every time you go into runlevel 3 when it wasn't
> > running in the first place.
> 	You're going to hate me.
> 	I disagree.  I've been reading a few docs, none of which give any
> definitive answer to this question.... it seems to me though, that Sys V
> init is defined in terms of the services operating in each runlevel.  For
> this interface to be consistant, everthing that is considered a "service"
> should have a defined on or off value for each runlevel.  Deleting a link
> indicates an undefined state for this service, which is ugly.

I *was* going to say this, but...  Anyway.  What if, for some
quantum-forsaken reason you wanted to run the AMD daemon (I think that
this is the one in question) on one runlevel, but not on another?  In
that case, you should *definitely* have a `K' link in there, otherwise
the darn thing may just keep running...

As mighty said, (paraphrased) With unix, it's best to be explicit.[1]

Jason Parker
ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au

[1] : I know that I've been /very/ explicit with my unix system at
      times...  :)

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