Switching runlevels (was Re: [ILUG] change server IP's)

[Dave Airlie]

but in your friends case X hand't existed so was still running .. so why
would init have kicked it? yu need to do a killall X in that case and let
init re-spawn it .. or maybe killall xdm....

init can only respawn somthing that has died..

Dave.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Conor Daly wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000 or thereabouts, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:35:38AM -0000, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> > > Yes, you shoud just have to vi the /etc/hosts and stick it in there. And
> > > /etc/sysconfig/network, then run :
> > > /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/./K90network restart   (handy little scripts are here for
> > > RH7)
> >
> > Sigh...
> >
> > Those are the links that tell the init scripts what gets run and/or
> > killed when switching run levels.  When running them yourself, you
> > should use:
> >
> >    /etc/init.d/network restart
> >
> Incidentally, is there any way to *restart* a particular runlevel's process
> w/o having to manually restart them all?  Someone had a problem with a hung
> console / X but could ssh in and I suggested "telinit 1; sleep 20; telinit
> 5" to get the box back in order.  Now, what I would like is to be able to
> do, from runlevel 5, "telinit 5" and have anything that is not running be
> started or have everything for that runlevel be restarted.  At present,
> telinit appears to check its current runlevel and, if that's the same as the
> requested level, it just exits.
>
> tried "telinit u" which the man page suggested might help but nothing
> changed.
>

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