On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:39 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > 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? You are right in that I think you are wrong. I think startx does not change the runlevel. I am not sure 100% but if the runlevel was changed then logging out would not return you to runlevel 3. -- ======================================================================= Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is. -- Gaius Valerius Catullus ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
