On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:24:39 +0000 Lisi lisi.reisz@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Varies by distro, I think. Gentoo uses a default set of four named runlevels (sysinit, boot, default, shutdown) with distinct purposes, but I know OpenRC isn't quite like most distros' init systems.