Re: init.d scripts boot order

Steven J. Yellin wrote:

>On Sun, 4 May 2003, kaktus2 wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>I'd like to change my init.d scripts boot order. So I changer manually a 
>>link in /etc/rc3.d with
>>another ID. But my changes seem to have been "undone" during the boot 
>>sequence.
>>So I heard about chkconfig ... I noticed a commented line containing 
>>chkconfig instructions in
>>quite every script.
>>Do I need to manualy change the chkconfig lines in my init scripts ?
>>Or only apply manual chkconfig 's on the scripts ?
>>    chkconfig --level 2345 scriptname on (off)
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>    Type "runlevel".  The second alphanumeric character it shows is the
>current run level.  If it's "5", then you should have changed the symbolic
>link in /etc/rc5.d to get the boot order changed, not just in /etc/rc3.d.  
>I don't think anything happens during boot to change the order of startup
>from the numerical order given by the numbers after the "S" in the
>symbolically linked names in /etc/rc.d/rc*.d.  If you change the chkconfig
>line in scriptname, then "chkconfig --level 2345 scriptname on" will setup
>links with the new order in all of levels 2, 3, 4, and 5, instead of just
>level 3 as you have done so far.  But so far as I know, that's just a
>convenient way to do it; the results should be no better than if you setup
>the symbolic links by hand.
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thanks.

I fixed my problems using the graphical interface tksysv
It helps a lot. Reading docs about the boot helped also :)

k.