Hi, > Please explain why networking should not be started in single user mode. > What do other distributions and proprietary UNIX systems do?
As far as I know, some unix systems will even keep the disks at read-only mode. Also they all seem to agree at not bringing up any daemons. But isn't e.g. dhcpcd a daemon? The goal is to allow recovery with minimal risk of damage. Given that starting networking is usually as simple as $ /etc/init.d/networking start (or invoke-rc.d, or some upstart equivalent) I see no benefit of enabling networking in single-user mode _by_default_. It's not as if you cannot start networking when you need it. However, networking may eventually trigger ip-up.d and similar scripts, which CAN probably cause some issues. best regards, Erich Schubert
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