Too Slow To Stop
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Aug 8 10:53:53 UTC 2007
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 at 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.
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