On May 12, 2005, at 2:19 PM, JT Moree wrote:
Ed Howland wrote:
| But can somebody explain how to get a graphical mode (RL 5) vs a shell
| only mode (RL 3?) type configuration. On my box at home, I just stopped
| all X services and explicitly start them via startx.


I do this

cd /etc/rc3.d/
rm S99xdm S99kdm S99gdm
cp -a ../rc6.d/K01xdm ../rc6.d/K01kdm ../rc6.d/K01gdm

You probably want a target folder on that. For example:

  cp -a ../rc6.d/K01xdm ../rc6.d/K01kdm ../rc6.d/K01gdm .


there is probably a way to do it with update-rc.d but it's only two
commands in the proper directory and you get run level 3 similar to RedHat.

I like your way better than update-rc.d. I understand your way. I don't understand update-rc.d. For example, I tried this:


  update-rc.d apache stop 20 2

hoping that apache will stop whenever init enters runlevel 2. But all I get is an error:

  update-rc.d: error: expected runlevel [0-9S] (did you forget "." ?)

I got tired of troubleshooting the problem and did a variation of what you did:

cd /etc/rc2.d
rm *apache*
cp -a ../rc6.d/*apache* .

Works great.

Runlevel 5 is pretty much the same as 2 out of the box.

Under Debian, yes, except for X11. Just like under RedHat, runlevel 3 is the same as 5, except for X11.


Under Debian, are the runlevels distinct or sequential? That is, by sequential runlevels I mean that entering runlevel 4 involves starting all daemons in runlevel 1, followed by runlevel 2, followed by runlevel 3, and finally runlevel 4.

Regards,
- Robert
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