On 19/04/06, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <stymar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > >Prefer 'telinit 3' to 'init 3', telinit is used to change
> > run levels, and
> > >shuts down services assoicated with the current run level.
> > >
> > >
> > On my FC5 install telinit is symlinked to init, so no odds in
> > which gets
> > used.
> >
> Be aware that some programs look at what name they are called and
> behave differently. I do not know about telinit, but as an example,
> slocate and updatedb are the same program (updatedb is a soft link).
>
Well, this motivated me to check, the manpage claims that telinit/init
has an unsual method for working out what it should do (rather than
checking it's invocation name á la slocate, gzip etc.):
"TELINIT
/sbin/telinit is linked to /sbin/init. It takes a one-character argu-
ment and signals init to perform the appropriate action.
...
"The init binary checks if it is init or telinit by looking at its process
id; the real init's process id is always 1. From this it follows that
instead of calling telinit one can also just use init instead as a
shortcut."
Which is funny, because I'm sure this caused me problems the first
time I tried adding services to run levels, but there you go.
--
imalone
