Dave Sherohman wrote: > <SNIP>... And, to me at least, `xdm stop` obviously means > "shut xdm down", while `init 3` has no readily apparent relationship to > X or xdm unless you're bringing outside knowledge with you. >
Bingo. That's what the arguements boils down to. What is most important IMHO, is the ability to customize runlevels to a local condition. You may be running RH 6.x on a laptop that needs to have X running with one network configuration in runlevel 5, and console only with a different configuration in runlevel 3, with levels 2 and 4 having various other combinations. I may have Debian 2.2.r3 running a webserver in runlevel 3, and I may have the machine setup as a backup MX server and a web server in runlevel 5, without X in either. --Rich _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________