[CentOS] why flash the terminal interface when loading the linux system?

[Robert Nichols]

On 08/29/2010 11:37 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 8/28/10 11:04 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> On 08/28/2010 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On 8/28/10 10:29 AM, ganu MailList wrote:
>>>> I had set the initdefault  as 5
>>>>
>>>
>>> 5 comes after 1,2,3, etc.
>>
>> I do hope you were making a joke and not really claiming that
>> the system progresses through runlevels 2, 3, and 4 on its
>> way to runlevel 5.
>
> Progressing through the run levels is the way it is supposed to work to ensure
> that the complex and necessary sequence of processes started by init are done in
> the right order when you change levels either direction.  At least that's the
> way it was designed in unix.  Linux sometimes cheats - and using runlevel 5 to
> start X was sort of an afterthought.  I guess you could wade through the /etc/rc
> script to see what it does these days.

The script goes directly to the specified runlevel.  Nothing from the other
/etc/rc.d/rc[0-6].d directories is examined at all.  That's the way it has
been for a long, long time.

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