On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:27:20 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] > > For example, random.init has these three lines: > # chkconfig: 2345 20 80 > # description: Saves and restores system entropy pool for \ > # higher quality random number generation. > This says that the random script should be started in levels > 2, 3, 4, and 5, that its start priority should be 20, and > that its stop priority should be 80. You should be able to > figure out what the description says; the \ causes the line > to be continued. The extra space in front of the line is > ignored. > > Mikkel [...] Yes, but what about my original problem? How can a process tell when the system has begun to shut down down? BTW, in looking around, I found: [root@mbrc32]# runlevel N 3 Now this surprises me; it was run from a KDE Shell Konsole. While I start my system at level 3, I then type startx. I thought that the GUI runs at level 5. Am I wrong about this? Mike.
