[ale] Runlevels

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Feb 23 09:28:26 EST 2003


I love learning new things.  Same applies on my SuSE 8.1 box.  What do 
you know?  Now to figure out what exactly the difference is....

David Corbin wrote:
> 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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