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