On May 12, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Ed Howland wrote:
JT Moree wrote:I'd have to do a diff on a clean install but I think Debian doesn't really use runlevels. 2345 all seem to be the same including X11.
That is what I noticed. Can it be that this is some option picked upon install? Or is Robert referring to a Debian based distro, like Libranet?
I'm using Knoppix, so it may be a bit different than standard Debian. From reading the /etc/inittab file and browsing the /etc/ rc?.d directories, Knoppix definitely uses runlevels.
0: shutdown 1: single-user mode 2: multi-user mode, text 3: multi-user mode, text 4: multi-user mode, text 5: multi-user mode, X11 6: reboot
On thing to note is that by default no services are listed in any of the /etc/rc?.d directories. That means that no services start up at startup via the rc scripts. The only reason X starts up in runlevel 5 is because of these two lines in /etc/inittab:
w5:5:wait:/bin/sleep 2 x5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/xsession start
BTW, been playing with Knoppix 3.8 and the persistent image that uses UnionFS. Very nice. I'll demo it at the CWELUG on Sunday.
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