Boot process

[operadornine]

Hi all,

I need to debug the boot process in the Red Hat 4.1 or see how it starts up and what is the the will start and in what order.

Thanks all.

 

[RhythmAce]

A good place to start is with the 'dmesg' command. It has a lot of information so you may want to use dmesg|less so you can scroll down. As far as the order of processes at boot time. I'm not sure if there is a command. What you can do however, is look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d assuming you boot to runlevel 3. If you boot to runlevel 5, then it would be /etc/rc.d/rc5.d. The order the processes are killed begin with a 'k' and the order they start begin with an 's'.

 

[operadornine]

you are the best thanks RhythmAce

 

[cyberspace]

You may also find chkconfig --list | grep "3n" gives you some useful information on services that start automatically at runlevel 3 (or 5, if that's what you use)

Doesn't give startup order though.

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