Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:46 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
but to have them come on at boot run:
chkconfig --level 35 NetworkManager on
and
chkconfig --level 35 NetworkManagerDispatcher on
You may want to skip the --level 35 option. If you do not specify
the levels, then the default of 2 through 5 are used, unless
overridden by the setting in the service control script. From "man
chkconfig:
By default, the on and off options affect only runlevels 2, 3, 4,
and 5, while reset affects all of the runlevels. The --level option
may be used to specify which runlevels are affected.
What you say is true but that is not the organized way to do things.
Most people who have never been in level 2 or 4 would only be confused
by your system.
It is not my system - it is the way all the init scripts are handled
on RedHat, Fedora, and any other distribution that uses the
initscripts package to implement System V style system
initialization. By specifying the run levels that a program should
run at by default, and by specifying when they should start and
stop, the user does not have to know the details of how the programs
interact. Things are set up for them without them having to worry
about it.
I do not see how running "chlconfg NetworkManagerDispatcher on"
instead of "chkconfig --level 35 NetworkManagerDispatcher on" would
confuse people. Having things set properly for the run levels that
they do not normally use is a bonus - if they end up using them in
troubleshooting, things are already set up for them without them
having to think about it.
Mikkel
This whole thing is quite confusing. If I go to the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory and just do # ./NetworkManager it gives me
this line:
Usage: ./NetworkManager {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}
I can follow the call with any of 5 verbs. I did a ./NetworkManager
status and that got:
[root@localhost init.d]# ./NetworkManager status
NetworkManager is stopped
That is very clear. Then I used chkconfig NetworkManager on and then
checked it:
[root@localhost init.d]# chkconfig NetworkManager on
[root@localhost init.d]# ./NetworkManager status
NetworkManager is stopped
This must mean that the application is still stopped BUT it will be
started with the next boot. Confusing.
Karl
