Chuck Hast wrote:
> Doing it manually it is just fine, but I am trying to figure out how the symlink
> would call networking restart? it is linking to a file, but I do not see how to
> cause the link to issue the command. Perhaps i am being dense here...
>
> Here is what the entry from rcS.d for networking looks like
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 30 2004 S40networking
> -> ../init.d/networking
>
> I need it to be networking restart. Will the ln command allow you to create a
> symlink to a file and add a argument?
>
The symlinks are executed by the rc program (/etc/rc.d/rc). Briefly, it
runs the symlink with a "start" or "stop" parameter, depending on what
runlevel the box is in. Check out the rc script to see how it works.
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