On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 05:43:57PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
It's not really "cheating" -- or "these days", for that matter. Runlevels in Red Hat and related distros have always been discrete steps, rather than cumulative.
It kind of misses the point of the design if you have to start the network anyplace but runlevel 3.
Missing the point of the design or not, that's precisely how it works and has always worked when you start in runlevel 5 (or 4) on a Red Hat-related Linux distribution.