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On Friday 01 August 2003 09:10, you wrote: > One source of confusion is that Linux run levels are not done > like Unix run levels. > > In Linux the level is for a task, but there is no hierarchical > meaning, so level 4 is not above level 3, so they should be > called "run states". > So on Linux I have S08ipchains in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc4.d, > but on HP-UX that would start it twice if I went to run level > 4 SuSE documentation says that when moving from one runlevel to another, a service will only be started if it was not running in the previous runlevel. (I'm unsure suddenly what that means if a service that should be running has been stopped though) That would apply as well to changing states as progressing in a hierarchy of course. -- From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.