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Old 01-04-2007, 06:08 AM   #1
dabang
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RHEL3: init scripts aren't executed


Hi there!

I'm having a problem with a server running RHEL3: when it boots up it won't start any of the services anymore (which means it did in the past...). I don't know what changed.
To look into the problem I changed the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to "2".
Those start-scripts reside in /etc/rc2.d:

Code:
S01sysstat    S12syslog  S58ntpd    S90crond        
S10network    S20random  S85mysqld  S97rhnsd
S11kernelsec  S55sshd    S86osad    S99local
Sadly after S10network no other script seems to be executed, so the eth0 is configured. init is running:

Code:
ps -ef |grep init
root         1     0  0 11:12 ?        00:00:04 init
root       835   729  0 12:56 ttyS0    00:00:00 grep init
No error messages during boot process. I can execute those scripts by

Code:
/etc/init.d/[script] start
with no problems. So why aren't they executed on start up?
I found some manuals on the boot process of RHEL3 but they won't give me a hint where to look at. So, where would be a good place to have a closer to look at?
 
Old 01-04-2007, 07:50 AM   #2
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OK, had some help and got it now! It was a problem with /etc/init.d/network... The script stuck and init wouldn't go on.
 
Old 01-04-2007, 07:54 AM   #3
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Because you choose the wrong runlevel, use runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 2 as explained in your /etc/inittab file;

Code:
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 
id:3:initdefault:
I took the liberty to set the runlevel as 3 in the code snippet above. See the difference;

Code:
$ pwd
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d
$ ls S*
S04readahead_early  S13portmap     S22messagebus  S85gpm      S98haldaemon
S06cpuspeed         S14nfslock     S25netfs       S90crond    S99local
S08iptables         S18rpcidmapd   S44acpid       S90xfs      S99smartd
S10network          S19rpcgssd     S55cups        S95anacron
S12syslog           S19rpcsvcgssd  S58ntpd        S95atd

As root type something like(no rebooting needed); telinit 3
 
  


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