26 Dec
2011
26 Dec
'11
5:40 p.m.
On 2011/12/26 15:24 (GMT) Lisi composed:
On Monday 26 December 2011 15:10:08 Felix Miata wrote:
> Now with System V init having been replaced or
set for replacement, my
> distaste for Debian clumping of everything into only two runlevels may
> disappear, which in turn might lead me to a new preference.
That's only the default. It is not compulsory.
And there are four on my
Debian machines, 0, 1, 2, 6. I know that the rpm distros use different
runlevels - e.g. run-level 5 is the equivalent of Debian run-level 2 - but
surely they only have the same number of levels by default, just with
different numbers allocated to one or two of the levels? Extra ones can be
added in both types of distro. 0 and 6 are surely the same. And I thought
that 1 was too, but it is several years since I looked at this, so I may be
wrong on that.
When I say Debian has "two runlevels" I mean two "run" (continuously
running)
levels, and don't count halt or reboot as run, leaving Debian with only two
"run" levels by default, single vs. everything. I never found any convenient
+ universal way to customize Debian runlevels, and since I have many systems
to deal with, I prefer distros with more operational segregation by default,
which is a distinction of most non-Debians. I don't like that to have
multiuser with networking to have X also defaulted. It makes X repair when
necessary more complicated, particularly to describe to someone needing
generic X repair help.
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