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I read that if you issue the following two commands in /etc/rd.c/rc3.d that lampp will automatically restart itself when you restart a server. Could someone explain why this works? I under ln makes a link to the lampp executable, but I'm sure there's some magic behind the odd looking names of the links you're creating.
The scripts in this directory are executed each time the system enters
this runlevel.
The scripts are all symbolic links whose targets are located in
/etc/init.d/ .
To disable a service in this runlevel, rename its script in this directory
so that the new name begins with a 'K' and a two-digit number, where the
number is the difference between the two-digit number following the 'S'
in its current name, and 100. To re-enable the service, rename the script
back to its original name beginning with 'S'.
For a more information see /etc/init.d/README.
What happens is the rc process calls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S* scripts with argument "start" in order of the number in their names. Similarly K scripts are passed "stop".
Thanks sem007, you answered the question in my post when I was replying to Alucard. K's are called during shutdown. Makes sense, and I understand the reason behind the numbering pattern too, pretty clever!
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