On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:05:45PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:14:34 +0300
> Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ________ __________, 5 ______________ 2003, 17:04, ________:
> > > run level 3 being the "no X" level is a RedHatism, btw and may be
> > > different for other distros.
> >
> > used by Mandrake also. Debian uses 2for X no?
>
> Mandrake was derived from RH so it's obvious.
>
> > What is the "standard"?
>
> The runlevel system was established by SVR4. The conventions that were
> adopted by (almost?) everyone are:
> 0 - halt
> 6 - reboot
> s - single user
> 2 - multi user
Nitpicking:
init 1 should set later running 'telnini s' (or equivalent) and going
to single-user mode. runlevel "1" is also in that standard for
single-user mode.
>
> The other runlevels varies between vendors. Examples:
> 1 - RedHat takes you to single user; HPUX start syncer
2: originally for "multi-user, no networking". Frankly I'm not sure this
is tested anywhere.
On SuSE most services will only start after networking has started, to
allow remote mounting of /usr. This is a hard requirement and I'm not
sure exactly if those services are supposed to start if you decide not
to start networking.
They still have this runlevel 2.
> 3 - RedHat starts NFS client, Autofs, NIS client; HPUX starts
> NFS server and CDE (X11)
Runlevel 4 is generally reserved for the sysadmin's whim. Generally
packages that will be automatically started on runlevels 3 and 5 will
also be automatically started on runlevel 4 if there won't be any
intervention.
> 5 - RedHat starts X11
On Debian the xdm-s are started as standard services (and can be
generally stopped). Some extra config is needed due to the existance of
multiple xdm packages (mainly gkm and kdm). So using a separate runlevel
is not required. Most people use runlevel 2.
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