Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 11:37:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509221537.LAA10284@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199509221450.KAA03655@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 22, 95 10:50:53 am
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> It looks like the "S" and "K" scripts are for starting and stopping > things. There are two ways of doing this. > > First, you can have the "K" run when leaving a level (to go to a lower level > not a higher one), and the "S" when entering a level (unless coming from > a higher one). Never mind, that's overly complex. > > The other way is you run everything in a single directory (S and K) > when going to that directory. This actually makes the most sense to me. > You could use who -r to make decisions within the script as to whether to do something like killing the daemons. most SVRx scripts (and rc in SVR0-->2 do something like set who -r to get the following info -- run level, previous run level and the number of times in this run level. This info would allow you to avoid running the same stuff twice. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |
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