NVidia Debian thread

[C M Reinehr]

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:29, Michael Hipp wrote:
> C M Reinehr wrote:
> > 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-gen
> >eric/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:
>
> I don't see how you can say that. On Debian systems 2-5 are identical where
> they are not in the LSB. Debian starts in RL2 and has *everything* running
> there, including the display manager. But that's not what the LSB seems to
> call for.
>
> Caveat: I'm going mostly by what my Ubuntu systems do, I assume it's
> directly copied from Debian.
>
> Michael

I guess it depends upon your interpretation of "in general". :-)

The overall architecture of the system initialization and the organization of 
Debian  init scripts & run levels conforms to the LSB. The only place that 
they differ from the LSB, that I have seen, is in their definition of run 
levels 2 though 5. I have no idea why they choose to differ in this respect, 
but per the note, this is permissible but not encouraged.

Cheers!

cmr

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