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

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:37:06AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> 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.

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.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>