On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:34:40PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Floris Bruynooghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was changing my default runlevels the other day as I wanted runlevel 2 > > to be console only. But that's next to the point really. > > Then you don't understand how the runlevels are organised in Debian. I > have explained this in previous posts. X is started in all run-levels 2-5. > You can stop this by reading 'man update-rc.d' for all or any run-levels.
Hum, I kind of disagree. I did what is perfectly acceptable in Debian. Debian leaves runlevels 2-5 to be customised by the sysadmin, if I don't want X somwhere I modify the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d (when using sysvinit). If I want anything else, I can do so. As already said, this is next to the point anyway and just gave some background why I looked into /etc/inittab. I only asked why runlevel 4 and 5 had only 1 getty on the VC's by default in Debian. Just out of curiosity, I'm not bothered with it. Maybe I should have cross-posted to -devel, but I didn't want to flood them there with such a useless question. It seems a bit off-topic there as I'm not questioning anything. > > What I was wondering about is that in /etc/inittab there are only > > getty's started (per system default) on all 6 VC's for runlevel 2 & 3, > > not for runlevel 4 & 5. Runlevel 4 & 5 only get a getty on one VC. But > > ?dm still gets started on all runlevels (appart from 1 & 6 that is of > > course). > > Runlevel 4 is reserved (thank you, Sun!) so that you can do what you like > with it. It's there for you to define your own runlevel sequence. I'm afraid you're wrong again. Sun has a complete different philosofie about runlevels then Debian. By default on Solaris runlevel 2 is not networked and runlevel 3 is networked iirc. Runlevel 3 is obviously the default runlevel in Solaris. Debian does not do this and leaves all 4 runlevels to the sysadmin to play with. IIRC there are many threads on -devel about that issue. I'm not sure if Sun does anything with runlevel 5 or leaves that to the sysadmin. But that's again besides the point, this is Debian. > > Not that I'm bothered or want to question it or so. I was only > > wondering if anyone happened to know the reasoning behind this. Just > > out of curiosity. The (apparenly wrong) knowledge sat somewhere in my > > poor brain cells that Debian treated runlevels 2, 3, 4 and 5 exactely > > the same and left it to the sysadmin to modify them. > > (see previous comment). same here ;-) floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
