Re: Debian equivalent to service?

[seeker5528@comcast.net]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:44:45 -0500
Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@optonline.net> wrote:

> These distinctions (at least 3 and 5) are actually useful when debugging 
> problems with your X config.  It just saves a step on some activity.
> 
> On debian, I have to kill gdm, fiddle, and restart it.

I can see situations where there would be some value in having
different runlevels for different things, but for the given example I
hardly see the differnce between typing:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

<fiddling with stuff>

/etc/init.d/gdm start

: or typing:

init 5

<fiddling with stuff>

init 3

: Or am I missing something?

Later, Seeker