NVidia Debian thread

[C M Reinehr]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 12:16, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:29 -0600, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > 	I wouldn't say that it ignores run levels, just that it has a slightly
> > different way of organizing them (as it does many other facets of Linux).
> > Run level 0 = full stop, run level 1 = single user, run level 2 =
> > multi-user & run level 6 = reboot. IANAE but I think the only real
> > difference, here, is that using run levels of 3, 4 or 5 is left to the
> > discretion of the user. IIRC this is quite similar to COL except that COL
> > didn't start the X-server until run level 3 or 4, but I could be
> > mistaken.
>
> Is there an LSB stance on this?? I'm used to runlevel 3 being text mode
> and runlevel 5 being X and 6 for shutdown to reboot. Go figure. Ric

There is:
 
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/runlevels.html

  0  halt
  1  single user mode
  2  multiuser with no network services exported
  3  normal/full multiuser
  4  reserved for local use, default is normal/full multiuser
  5  multiuser with a display manager or equivalent
  6  reboot
  Note: These run levels were chosen as reflecting the most frequent existing 
practice, and in the absence of other considerations, implementors are 
strongly encouraged to follow this convention to provide consistency for 
system administrators who need to work with multiple distributions.

It seems that, in general, Debian conforms with the LSB. From the Debian 
Reference Manual:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-runlevels

After completing the boot process, init starts all services that are 
configured to run in the default runlevel. The default runlevel is given by 
the entry for id in /etc/inittab. Debian ships with id=2. 
Debian uses the following runlevels: 
 1 (single-user mode), 
 2 through 5 (multiuser modes), and 
 0 (halt the system), 
 6 (reboot the system). 
Runlevels 7, 8, and 9 can also be used but their rc directories are not 
populated when packages are installed. 
Switch runlevels using the telinit command. 

It seems that setting up run levels 3 though 5 is left as an exercise for the 
reader. ;-)

HTH

cmr
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