On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:30 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
(1) What am I trying to do?
Install the proprietary nvidia drivers for my video card. Nvidia
advises that the X Window System be stopped during installation. This
can be done in either runlevel 1 or 3. Level 3 is better, but since
Mike Burger wrote:
Ubuntu (the distro in which I believe upstart to have been started) has
done away with the inittab, altogether, in favor of another script in
their /etc/events.d (their equivalent of Fedora's /etc/event.d)
directory
that determines default runlevel. Maybe Fedora needs
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts with
the X Window System running. What am I missing?
...
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 01:50 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
g wrote:
this is interesting and brings a question, are you saying that ubuntu and
fedora use /etc/event.d/ instead of inittab or just ubuntu?
Just Ubuntu.
Kevin Kofler
Well it exists in F9 at least. Are you saying it is
Aaron Konstam wrote:
Well it exists in F9 at least. Are you saying it is not used?
It's used for event scripts. But the default runlevel is set
in /etc/inittab, not in a script in /etc/event.d, whereas Ubuntu does the
latter. To be more precise, Fedora's /etc/event.d/rcS script reads the
Aaron Konstam wrote:
Well it exists in F9 at least. Are you saying it is not used?
existence and usage are 2 different things.
what i said is that in version of f10 that i have installed, i changed
from level 5 to level 3 via inittab.
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Kevin Kofler wrote:
Just Ubuntu.
ok. just wanted to be clear and sure something was not wrong with
my f10 install. :)
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Mike Burger wrote:
Ubuntu (the distro in which I believe upstart to have been started) has
done away with the inittab, altogether, in favor of another script in
their /etc/events.d (their equivalent of Fedora's /etc/event.d) directory
that determines default runlevel. Maybe Fedora needs to
g wrote:
this is interesting and brings a question, are you saying that ubuntu and
fedora use /etc/event.d/ instead of inittab or just ubuntu?
Just Ubuntu.
Kevin Kofler
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2009/4/7 D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com:
| From: Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com
| runlevel=$(/bin/awk -F ':' '($3 == initdefault) ($1 !~ /(#|;)/) {
print $2 }' /etc/inittab)
Probably you meant ($1 !~ /^(#|;)/)
Actually I didn't - hence my comment:
I've assumed that
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
Mike Burger wrote:
I'm still doing some digging.
I thought there was a thread on this very topic in a previous
release, but I can't find it (maybe it was in fedora-list
rather than fedora-test-list), anyway it is a very old
Mike Burger wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Hummm Bad news
I had to test this and have in the intttab file
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
; id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:
And the system still comes up in run level 5.
There is probably no
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
Mike Burger wrote:
I'm still doing some digging.
I thought there was a thread on this very topic in a previous
release, but I can't find it (maybe it was in fedora-list
rather than fedora-test-list), anyway it is a very old bug
I'm surprised is still
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Hummm Bad news
I had to test this and have in the intttab file
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
; id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:
Mike Burger wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
Mike Burger wrote:
I'm still doing some digging.
I thought there was a thread on this very topic in a previous
release, but I can't find it (maybe it was in fedora-list
rather than fedora-test-list), anyway
Mike Burger wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Hummm Bad news
I had to test this and have in the intttab file
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
; id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:
And the system still comes up in run level 5.
There is probably no
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:21:54 -0400
Mike Burger wrote:
However, I pop in and out of this list, given the level of traffic and
my availability to monitor and try to answer questions (when I *think*
that I'm actually capable of answering them), based on workload and
travel, so it may be
Mike Burger wrote:
Again...within inittab, the # character is not a comment delimiter...the
;
character is.
Because the # was used, the first default line was matched, therefore
processing to determine the default runlevel stopped at the first
match...the line with the 5 in it.
| From: Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com
| runlevel=$(/bin/awk -F ':' '($3 == initdefault) ($1 !~ /(#|;)/) { print
$2 }' /etc/inittab)
Probably you meant ($1 !~ /^(#|;)/)
Simpler, I think:
runlevel=`/bin/awk -F ':' '/^[^#;]/ ($3 == initdefault) { print $2 }'
/etc/inittab`
Mike Burger wrote:
Fair enough, if that is to be the end product...but if you want to test
something, and don't want to litter the system with dozens of backup
inittab files and the like, commenting a line is quicker than fully
editing it in and out.
I don't understand this at all. It's a
Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Hummm Bad news
I had to test this and have in the intttab file
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
; id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:23 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
--- On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan
jonr...@pacbell.net wrote:
| I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with
| the X Window System running. What am I missing?
|
| id:1:initdefault:
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On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 23:13 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:23 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
Shakthi Kannan:
Use id:3:default:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#textonly
Jonathan Ryshpan:
I have (of course) tried that too. Runlevel 1 should have the same
effect as 3, only more so.
I'd agree with using 3 as a text-only default, rather than 1. Single
mode has less security - you end
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have (of course) tried that too. Runlevel 1 should have the same
effect as 3, only more so.
jon
No really. You lose a lot of security. You also lose networking.
What are you trying to do that you want to start in run level 1?
Mikkel
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On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 23:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:23 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
--- On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan
jonr...@pacbell.net wrote:
| I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with
| the X Window
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
# id:5:initdefault:
id:1:initdefault:
I seem to recall seeing that before, delete
Mike Burger wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
# id:5:initdefault:
id:1:initdefault:
I seem to recall seeing
Mike Burger wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
# id:5:initdefault:
id:1:initdefault:
I
Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
Ed Greshko wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the
Ed Greshko wrote:
Hummm Bad news
I had to test this and have in the intttab file
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
; id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:
And the system still comes up in run level 5.
There is probably no comment sign anymore.
Mike Burger wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
# id:5:initdefault:
id:1:initdefault:
I seem to
Ed Greshko wrote:
Hummm Bad news
I had to test this and have in the intttab file
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
; id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:
And the system still comes up in run level 5.
There is probably no comment sign anymore.
Ed Greshko wrote:
Never mind. I see what you are saying after all I forgot for
the moment that the original id line was left in the modified file
Duh...
And, of course, I replied before seeing this. Sorry.
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Ed Greshko wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
#
Mike Burger wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Hummm Bad news
I had to test this and have in the intttab file
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
; id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:
And the system still comes up in run level 5.
There is
Mike Burger wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts with
the X Window System running. What am I missing?
Thanks - jon
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3,
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running. What am I missing?
# id:5:initdefault:
id:1:initdefault:
I seem to recall seeing that before, delete the commented-out line.
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--- On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan
jonr...@pacbell.net wrote:
| I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts with
| the X Window System running. What am I missing?
|
| id:1:initdefault:
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Use id:3:default:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#textonly
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