[ale] Runlevels

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Sun Feb 23 06:59:16 EST 2003


Well, both are labled that way in inittab, but on Debian, there is an 
rcS.d and rc1.d in /etc, so I figure they're not *quite* the same.

David

Geoffrey wrote:

> I believe that S (single) and 1 are the same.
>
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
>> David -
>>
>> This isn't standardized from distro to distro, but runlevel 5 under
>> RH/Mandrake is the one where X comes up at boot.  Runlevel 1 is the
>> single-user mode typically engaged by typing "linux single" at the boot
>> prompt.  Runlevel 3 is the one associated with X-less boot.
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 20:40, David Corbin wrote:
>>
>>> What is the difference between S and 1 in terms of runtime levels?
>>>
>>> David
>>


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