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?

I happen to have several copies of this old background server on my system
so I located them all and added ab x to their names. Not sure which copy
was starting since I renamed them all for this test. I could rename them
back one at a time but it would be better to understand what is calling the
program.

The new version of the program didn't come up so whatever is going on has
been going on for years, to the extent that whwnever I saw that happen I
simply assumed it came from the rc.d/8 script.

Any idea where this call happens?

Somewhat relared is that in this same general area some help programs are
failing to start but I didn't care and didn't try to track those down.

I know this is a pretty dumb question but I have drifted away from the nurs
and bolts of OSR.

Any help would be appreciared.

Thanks,

DAW