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Changing services's order startup
Name: ntvmt98 Date: May 11, 2006 at 20:58:01 Pacific OS: Linux AS 3.0 CPU/Ram: 3.2G/8G Ram Product: IBM
Comment:
Hello,
I am using Red hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3.
I have 3 custom services : service_1, service_2 and service_3. Now i want these services startup in order: service_1, service_2, service_3 when the system startup.
Name: 3Dave Date: May 12, 2006 at 02:50:37 Pacific
Reply:
Depends on how you are running them. If you only need the services to be started once when the computer is turned on simply add the commands to rc.local in the order you want. If you want the services to run whenever a specific runlevel is reached then you need to create symbolic links in the runlevel directory you want (eg /etc/rc.d/rc3.d) and have them numbered so that the first run is lowest, eg S91service_1, S92service_2, S93service_3. "man init" for more details.
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Response Number 2
Name: ntvmt98 Date: May 12, 2006 at 21:35:59 Pacific
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