Re: Linux startup issue

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard@Tesco.NET>]

DP> I use the following script to start/restart DNS services:
DP> http://km3t.org/dns

1.  This will only be necessary if you have configured your services to 
initially be in the "down" state.
2.  "Restart" is better implemented as "svc -t" rather than as "svc 
-du", since the latter has the side-effect of changing the current state 
(to "up") whereas the former does not.

DP> Here is my /etc/inittab:
DP> http://km3t.org/inittab

The root cause of your problem is the fact that you have told "init" not 
to bring up "svscan" until _after_ all of your "rc[0-9]" scripts have 
been run.  Reconfigure so that "init" starts "svscan" _before_ your 
run-level scripts are invoked.

DP> Any ideas or help appreciated.

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<URL:http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html>

The only jobs of a "run level" should be
* to change the ("up","down") states of a set of services,
and
* to (indirectly) trigger various one-time transition actions (e.g. by 
modifying "/etc/runit/{stopit,reboot}").