Establishing Runlevels

[netx2]

In installing programs from source, and getting them to start at boot, I have encountered some questions. For instance, in the rc.d directory, the rc#.d files. Certain programs have certain numbers in these files. For examle, some documentation I was looking at for samba stated rc3.d/S45samba. What does the S45 represent. I am looking at installing samba and apache from source and am curious if these numbers can be set to anyhting, or do the major Daemons have a preset # that you are supposed to use.

Thanks.

[mdwatts]

S45 represents the order in which the service is started.

00 would start first and 99 would start last.

[mdwatts]

Have a read of the SysV NHF

http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Booting_Your_OS/SysVinit.html

[The Whizzard]

Although not directly related to your question, have a look at the init man page. man init

IMHO, this man page is the only one written as well as it is. Anyone interesten in knowing about this part of the boot process should have a glance at it.

You may also have a /etc/init.d/README or /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz that are worth a glance over.

[netx2]

Thank ya both for your answers. I have started looking them over, and this is exactly what I wanted to see.

[mdwatts]

Glad to help.

As The Whizzard posted, there are quite a few documents around that explain the whole boot process.

My distro includes a how-to on the boot process by default.

/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt