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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:46:10PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:20 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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.
Then about 75% of the UNIX-like world differs and differs wildly.
Then 90%+ of UNIX flavors I used so far fall into that 25%. And I have no mean UNIX experience either, even tho I don't call myself a guru (SunOS, Solaris, OSF/1, HP/UX, lots of different Linuxes, AIX from 2 up to 4). And I was a professional AIX admin (inside IBM) for some time, so at least for that one I can testify with deep knowledge.
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.
I'm just trying to figure out what you're referring to. LSB is the only thing I can think of.
LSB only refers to Linux. The standard I'm talking about predates LSB.
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 ...
No rush. I'm more curious now than anything. If you say Connectiva was using it as a point-of-reference, then I'm really just curious.
Errr, I never made such a claim :) I said I was using it when I was working for Conectiva. As a matter of fact, I was following a lot of standards that Conectiva never mandated. Just my old paranoid side speaking :)
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