[CentOS] Re: Reboots -- LSB 2.1 Core Generic Section 8.5

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 07:12:24PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 20:30 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> > Oh, just one thing. I don't have Fedora here to test, otherwise
> > I would check myself.
> > Are you sure it is starting xdm at runlevel 3 ? I noticed several
> > distros are not definining the runlevel as a kernel paramter on
> > grub/lilo, which will bypass the one defined on inittab.
> 
> No.
> 
> I'm saying RHL/FC-based distros use the 3-5 combination, with
> 2 being multiuser w/o NFS or possibly networking.
> 
> Many other distros, and even some UNIX flavors, just use 2-3.
> They don't have a separate multiuser w/o NFS or networking.

Actually, you can have runlevel 2 with out without networking.
The only requirement is that NFS should not be enabled on
2. Also, on run level 5, XDM must be enabled. Those two are facts
I know for sure.

Now, I know that you can have NFS either active or not on runlevel
3. So, while I was writing this, I figured I really don't remember
any requirement that xdm MUST be disabled on runlevel 3. Only that
it must be enabled on runlevel 5. Again, it might be wrong, and
the requirement for runlevel 3 is there too. I really need to
find that documentation.

Yes, I saw many Unix flavors that mostly use 2-3. Always with NFS
disabled on 2. Sometimes network too, but not always. I never
saw any unix flavors with XDM active on 3 off shelf. Of course,
I have seen more than once admins configuring xdm on runlevel 3,
and even a couple times starting xdm using rc.local. But that is
besides the point here.

Still looking ...

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
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