On Sunday 03 June 2012 19:09, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/06/03 17:46 (GMT+0100) Colin Guthrie composed: > > >>> /etc/inittab is no longer used or read. > > For real men (and women), we just change the > > /etc/systemd/system/default.target symlink to point at whatever target > > we want to use by default. > > So instead of changing one character in a file that has been standard for > decades, one must figure out the name of the desired target file, then type a > lot so as to get the required symlink.
I agree with Felix, this is not a good change. I'm sure there is a perfectly valid ans sound reason for changig it, but there's a difference in changing it for the better and changing it for the worse. This is a bad change. Besides, the best thing about the inittab is that it is self-explanatory even to novices. A symlink is Not obvious. > Thank God everything that used to make good sense hasn't been replaced by > something more complicated. Don't give them any ideas. ;-)= > I've taken to including a digit on every Grub > kernel line quite some time ago. I've done the same for more than 10 years. Editing a text file to change a number, eg. from "5" to "3", is much easier to remember than changing a symlink to "/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target", especially when explaning this to a not so advanced user over the phone, who doesn't have a working X at the moment. (Yes, I actually do have such support calls.) The support departments are just going to love this. ;-)= -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324
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