[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 16:41:04 UTC 2011
On 6/16/2011 10:43 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> runlevels, traditionally, have not been defined (although the LSB has
>
> In Linux? I mean, runlevel 3 was multi-user text mode as far back as Sun
> OS - I can remember putting things into 3, because X would
> while () {
> crash
> respawn
> }
Originally runlevel 2 was multiuser, 3 was multiuser with networking and
network daemons. Without serial terminals, that wouldn't make a lot of
sense...
>> On System V and Solaris runlevel 5 is halt so you might get a nasty
>> surprise if you were expecting X11!
I think adding 5 for X was a Linux kludge. And in the original sysV
design, I believe each runlevel was executed in sequence up and down.
That is, everything started in runlevel 1 and 2 started on the way to 3
and could be sequenced properly that way instead of jumping directly to
3 or 5 and having to have everything specified to start there.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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