On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:21 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Larry Martell wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> >>> wrote: >>>> Am 13.12.2013 23:00, schrieb Larry Martell: >>>>> In the docs for chkconfig it says: >>>>> More commonly, the service is off by default on all runlevels, which >>>>> looks like this: >>>>> >>>>> # chkconfig: - 20 80 >>>>> >>>>> But services with a chkconfig entry like that are started at boot time >>>>> (e.g. mysql, httpd). So when do they get started? >>>> >>>> when they are enabled with "chkconfig <service> on" >>>> >>>> look at /etc/rc0.d/ to /etc/rc6.d >>>> chkconfig finally creates symlinks there >>> >>> But at what run levels is my question. >>> >>> Looking at mysqd, it has: >>> >>> # chkconfig: - 64 36 >>> >>> and I see a S64mysqld link in rc 2, 3, 4, and 5. Why in those 4 dirs? >>> Will all scripts with - in the chkconfig entry be started at those 4 >>> levels? How is putting - different from putting 2345? >> >> Runlevel 0 is poweroff. 1 is single user/maintenance mode. 4, well, no one >> actually uses 4. And 6 is reboot. So, once the network's up, text mode and >> X-mode. > > Thanks, but what was I wondering was what is the difference between > putting - and 2345 on the chkconfig entry. The - means that it is not enabled. The 2345 means that it gets started in run levels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Regards, -- Tom me at tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123 at tdiehl.org