Re: New sysvinit-2.60 ??!!??

Darrin R. Smith (drsmith@eznet.net)
Sun, 14 Apr 1996 22:17:09 -0400

anos@neurope.ikea.com wrote:
>
> Alan K. Adamson wrote:
> >
> > Anyone installed and made this release work???
> >
> > I built it, installed it and then tried a shutdown -r -t0 now and the
> > command just came back to the prompt.... NO shutdown... What did I do
> > wrong. It is on a slackware release machine.... with latest kernel,
> > etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alan
> > ne1h@ne1h.radio.org
>
> Same here. After installing 2.6.0 on a 1.3.88 kernel, the "reboot" command
> resulted in run-level 6, i.e XDM starting! Had to hard-reset out from there...
>
> Any clues ?
>
> Anders

For sysvinit(ie AT&T, Solaris, etc) runlevels 0 and 6 are
reserved for taking down the system. So it isn't too surprising that
asking for a reboot put you into runlevel 6 -- that's what's supposed
to happen.

I'm not familiar with 2.60, but I do remember that I had to
re-write the bootup scripts practically from scratch to get it to
work like Sun's system v imitation(the way Solaris 2.3 does it).

--Darrin Smith

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