Re: init 5 ?

[Theo Bierman <theob@za.uu.net>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:52:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson 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?

  hi all, thanks for the replies. sorry but i'm still battling. in inittab i have this:

  # The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

 now i would have thought to, that if you change it to id:3:initdefault then all is well however Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user (as per inittab) so if 2 boots straight into X then how will 3 make it boot to "what i thought was init 3" ie not X. 
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