> Mike Burger wrote: >> >> Again...within inittab, the # character is not a comment delimiter...the >> ; >> character is. >> >> Because the # was used, the first default line was matched, therefore >> processing to determine the default runlevel stopped at the first >> match...the line with the 5 in it. >> >> Subsequent lines, which do not contain "initdefault" are processed, >> because they do not match the "initdefault" parameter that was matched >> above. > Strange - I have always been under the impression that both # and ; > work as comment delimiters in inittab. If # is not a comment > delimiter, then all the other comment lines that start with # should > generate syntax errors.
As has been noted, it turns out it's nothing to do with the delimiter being used for commenting, after all, but a scripting logic error that ignores the fact that there's a commenting delimiter in place, at all. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscr...@bubbanfriends.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
