How to shut down

[Cyberclops]

Dusty wrote:
> 
> Sounds like you (and probally others) could use a lesson in the INIT system.  I don't have much time , so hopefully someone else will expand on this.
> 
> Sys V type *nix uses the init system to start different applications.  If you look in /etc/rc.d/init.d (the .d meaning directory) you will see several scripts for things like apache, ssh, mail (all of the deamons of programs that usually end with a "d" httpd, smtpd, sshd).  If you look at /etc/rc.d you will see rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, etc.  Each of these directories represent a RUNLEVEL or INIT Level.  There are softlinks from the files in each rc#.d back to the actual scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d.  In the file /etc/inittab (in linux) you define what run level you want your computers to start.  Redhat defines RUNLEVEL 3 as the default command line run level and 5 as the default gui run level.  You can change that as you want. As you look in the rc#.d directories you will notice the files are names things like K99sendmail or S99sendmail.  The K means kill and the S means start.  The number is the order in which the system should start or stop the deamons.  In linux only file in y!
> our current run level are executed.  On Solaris the system steps through the run levels.  Those scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d are the ones that run like "apache stop|start".
> 
Great, but how does this make the Linux system easy to use for the home
user?

> Gotta run
> 
> Dusty
> 
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> > Do these same commands work on any program?  For example could you open
> > a terminal and type "./opera stop" ?
> >
> > Deven Phillips wrote:
> > >
> > > To shutdown Apache type "/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop"
> > > To restart it type "/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart"
> > > To start the server while it is stopped "/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start"
> > >
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