[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

Thu Jun 16 16:58:05 UTC 2011
Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com>

On 06/16/2011 12:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
No. I worked with both SCO and ISC linux in the late 80's and early 90's and run level 5 was used for X. In fact I think
it was used also in DGUX for X.


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