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.