Re: init 5 ?

[darrell <ddupasedm@netscape.net>]

ron.l.johnson@cox.net wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:30:35 +0100 Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
>
> > According to Ron Johnson:
> >
> > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > > In article <[🔎] 20020116134522.A26340@za.uu.net>,
> > > > Theo Bierman  <theob@za.uu.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > When starting the machine up my default init level is X and not level 3.
> > > > > I thought perhaps it would be a setting in /etc/inittab however nothing
> > > > > really sheds ligt there.... where should I be looking?
> > > > X and runlevels don't have anything to do with eachother in Debian.
> > > > The default runlevel is 2, and all services run in runlevel 2.
> > > What if you change to "id:3:initdefault:" in /etc/inittab, like
> > > I did?
> > Well then the default would be 3
>
> Well, duh.  Would any harm come?  Why does Debian choose rl 2,
> whereas RH-types choose rl 3?
this does irritate me somewhat too! when i was trying to figure
out how to fix gdm, i tried to pass runlevel to lilo - this was
nice when 1-3-5 where the runlevels singleuser-network-gui, guess
that is old hat now?

darrell