Sorry to butt in. So if I then reset my initdefault to 5 I could get it
to auto start in x11? Does Redhat offer a GUI login?
-----Original Message-----
From: Riley Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 10:14 AM
To: LuftHans
Cc: Lynx {Glenn Jones}; Schlepptop
Subject: Re: Login via serial port
Hi there.
Comments re RedHat's version of this...
>> Could you explain this run level thing to me in more detail? i
>> am quite a linux novice. thx
> In /etc/inittab you'll have entries like:
That's presumably the SUSE version...
> # /sbin/init.d/rc takes care of runlevel handling
> #
> # runlevel 0 is halt
> # runlevel S is single-user
> # runlevel 1 is multi-user without network
> # runlevel 2 is multi-user with network
> # runlevel 3 is multi-user with network and xdm
> # runlevel 6 is reboot
> l0:0:wait:/sbin/init.d/rc 0
> l1:1:wait:/sbin/init.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/sbin/init.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/sbin/init.d/rc 3
> #l4:4:wait:/sbin/init.d/rc 4
> #l5:5:wait:/sbin/init.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/sbin/init.d/rc 6
Here's the RedHat version...
Q> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
Q>
Q> # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
Q> # 1 - Single user mode
Q> # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not
Q> # have networking facilities)
Q> # 3 - Full multiuser mode
Q> # 4 - unused
Q> # 5 - X11
Q> # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
Q>
Q> id:3:initdefault:
Q>
Q> l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
Q> l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
Q> l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
Q> l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
Q> l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
Q> l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
Q> l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
Also, if you wish to add some extra runlevels for your own use, you
can create levels 7, 8 and 9 quite easily. On RedHat, to create level
7, first do the following...
Q> cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
Q> mkdir ../rc7.d
Q> tar cf - * | ( cd ../rc7.d ; tar xvf - )
...append the following line to /etc/inittab after the block above...
Q> l7:7:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 7
...then make use of your new runlevel.
> I use suse. Debian, redhat, etc. might all work a little
> different, though my LinuxPPC (based on redhat) is the same,
> just with a different path to "rc".
> Before those entries is where the default run level is set:
> id:3:initdefault:
> Your inittab should have a warning for you not to set default to
> 6, which is reboot :).
ALso don't set the default to 0, which is system halt.
> Change the number in there to be whatever you want your default
> runlevel to be. For instance, 4. For that the entry for runlevel
> 4 would need to be un-"commented out" in my setup.
It's included in RedHat by default...
Best wishes from Riley.
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