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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-01-15 21:08:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-01-15 21:08:26 +0000 |
| commit | d535079acaeaf18d6e51a117a07a8ebdc4e14560 (patch) | |
| tree | acc6aad2523746313c8d8634b568244eeb578a55 /chapter07/usage.xml | |
| parent | 1740d4852d5740f53a5b68bc16c111119728740f (diff) | |
removed c7-createdirs
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1439 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter07/usage.xml b/chapter07/usage.xml index f6894436c..4f40939d4 100644 --- a/chapter07/usage.xml +++ b/chapter07/usage.xml @@ -31,23 +31,19 @@ the target runlevel. For example, to reboot the computer, a user would issue the init 6 command. The reboot command is just an alias, as is the halt command an alias to init 0.</para> -<para>The /etc/init.d/rcS script is run at every startup of the computer, -before any runlevel is executed and runs the scripts listed in -/etc/rcS.d</para> - -<para>There are a number of directories under /etc that look like like rc?.d -where ? is the number of the runlevel and rcS.d which contain a number of -symbolic links. Some begin with an K, the others begin with an S, and all -of them have three numbers following the initial letter. The K means to -stop (kill) a service, and the S means to start a service. The numbers -determine the order in which the scripts are run, from 000 to 999; the -lower the number the sooner it gets executed. When init switches to -another runlevel, the appropriate services get killed and others get -started.</para> - -<para>The real scripts are in /etc/init.d. They do all the work, and the +<para>There are a number of directories under /etc/rc.d that look like +like rc?.d where ? is the number of the runlevel and rcsysinit.d which +contain a number of symbolic links. Some begin with an K, the others +begin with an S, and all of them have three numbers following the initial +letter. The K means to stop (kill) a service, and the S means to start a +service. The numbers determine the order in which the scripts are run, +from 00 to 99; the lower the number the sooner it gets executed. When init +switches to another runlevel, the appropriate services get killed and +others get started.</para> + +<para>The real scripts are in /etc/rc.d/init.d. They do all the work, and the symlinks all point to them. Killing links and starting links point to -the same script in /etc/init.d. That's because the scripts can be +the same script in /etc/rc.d/init.d. That's because the scripts can be called with different parameters like start, stop, restart, reload, status. When a K link is encountered, the appropriate script is run with the stop argument. When a S link is encountered, the appropriate script |