----- Original Message -----
From: "Help for all" <sds10@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@jpr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:07 AM
Subject: Startup sequence OSR 5.0.6
> This is part 1 of 2, somewhat related.
>
> In installing a major update of a program I have been supporting for years
> I
> had to change a background server. I went into /etc/rc.d/8 (userdef) and
> selected the updated version. The old version still started so I deleted
> the startup statement from userdef. I rebooted and still the wrong
> version
> came up.
>
> I watched tht bootup process and during the multi-user sequence (after
> ctrl-d) I could see the background program start in the services startup
> area:
>
> RPC
> TCP
> my background program
> NFS
> NLM
> SCOHTTP
>
> Bottom line is that the BG server was being started somewhere other than
> etc/rc.d/8 (userdef)
>
> Question- What or where?
Based on what you say, it should be one of the files returned by this:
ls /etc/rc2.d/S8[678]*
Brian K. White --
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