Re: webmin rpm and chkconfig...

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Joe Cooper wrote:

> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
>> jam...@te... wrote:
>>
>>>       - Did you really mean to have kill and start scripts in the 
>>> same run
>>>       level?  I thought the
>>>          kill scripts belonged in the run levels where you don't want
>>>       webmin to run, such
>>>          as 0, 1, and 6.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> To be honest, I'm not really sure about that! Aren't the K scripts for 
>> a runlevel
>> run when leaving it? So if you booted to runlevel 5, S99webmin would 
>> be run at boot time..
>> When shutting down (and so leaving runlevel 5) K10webmin would be run.
>>
>> Correct me if I am wrong in my understanding of how init scripts work 
>> on shutdown though.
> 
> 
> My understanding was the same as James.  My impression was that the kill 
> scripts run as you switch into a runlevel.  Thus rc6.d contains a ton of 
> K scripts and only two S scripts (S00killall and S01reboot) and rc0.d is 
> the same except S01halt replaces S01reboot.
> 
> telinit <somelevel> should prove it quickly...I'm not at a machine I can 
> do a runlevel change on at the moment, but I reckon James is right.
> 
> This is one of those simple things that I rarely dig into though.  It 
> just works, so why bother understanding it?  ;-)
> 
> Anyway, in my RPMs I've gone under the assumption that you start it in 
> runlevels where you want it to run and kill it in levels where you don't 
> (thus network gets killed in level 1..actually everything gets killed 
> there except S00single).  I may be wrong, but it seems to work.  Then 
> again, so does Webmin!  ;-)

Looks like you are right .. all the other init scripts on my system have
their S links in rc3.d, rc4.d and rc5.d , and their K links in rc0.d , rc1.d
and rc6.d . So I'll make the Webmin RPM do the same thing ..

  - Jamie