[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Regid Ichira]
> > 1. AM I right that strictly speaking, there are cases where the
> > `easiest way' will not work?
> 
> Yes.  Any daemon started from within rcS.d/ will be killed by
> /etc/rc1.d/S01killprocs and not started again when switching to
> runlevels 2-5.  This is the reason why I have recommended to move all
> daemon starting out of rcS.d/ and into rc[2-5].d/.  There is a lot of
> work left to do before this is done.  Luckily there isn't that that
> many daemons started from rcS.d/, so in many installations, switching
> to runlevel 1 and back will work.

There's networking: it may start deamons that are required for the
connection to remain operational in the medium/long term (dhcp-client,
wpa-supplicant, etc).   These are all killed and not restarted when you
switch to runlevel 1.

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  Henrique Holschuh