On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:54, Andrew Cady wrote: >On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:08:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing >> for someone new to Debian. All Linux doc's state runlevel 5 is for >> multiuser with X, while Debian gdm installs itself to runlevel 2... >> and this is not so obvious either. Most docs i read where talking >> about changing runlevels in order to stop/start gui login... > >Not all distributions even use sysv style init. It is faulty >documentation that assumes any particular runlevel for any particular >software. That is definitely a system-specific issue. When you see >documentation making this mistake please submit a correction to the >maintainer.
Maybe this is the official debian attitude, but for those of us who may have a different distro on each machine, it gets damned confusing. Yes, debian is different, but this is one area where they really should come in out of the cold & rain. Major things like runlevels vs functions could IMO be a lot more standardized, and I feel that debian is doing it different just to be debian. On any system, it seems to make sense that the cli interface is runlevel 3, and the x interface is runlevel 5. I'm not really sure what runlevels 1,2 & 4 are for unless its to be able to customize the system to do what you want that might be different from the normal users of 3 & 5. And no one seems to have documented very well, or called it to my attention, the debian methods & reasons, its 'just debian'. And thats not always a Good Thing(TM) -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should use this address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
