Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!pyramid!prls!mips!dce From: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: init states in SVR3 Message-ID: <2475@quacky.mips.COM> Date: 29 Jun 88 16:56:01 GMT Reply-To: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 22 We've run into an interesting situation in SVR3 and SVR3.1 having to do with changing run states. It seems to me that changing from state X to state Y would require running each of the files in /etc/rcX.d with the "stop" argument and then running each of the files in /etc/rcY.d with the "start" argument. This doesn't happen. The result is that when someone changes from state 2 to state 1 and then back to 2, there are some daemons, like cron, started again. Something I noticed is that /etc/rc1.d will unmount all filesystems and kill all running processes, resulting in what sounds like single-user mode to me. Then again, inittab doesn't reference /etc/rc.1 at all. Could someone out there explain what should really happen when the run state is changed? -- David Elliott dce@mips.com or {ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!dce