Ubuntu run level

[vu pham]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:16 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> > > Try Runlevel 2. Runlevel 3 is the normal gui level for Debian systems.
> >
> > No, runlevel 2 is normal runlevel for Debian period.  Now if you
> > install X and an X manager, then you'll get your GUI in runlevel 2.
> >
> > Note that, of all the systems I recall, only RH Linux and Solaris run
> > X out of inittab.  OTOH, since I usually run GUI-less servers (AIX,
> > HP-UX, among others), I may not have noticed.
> 
> David is correct.  If you want it to use runlevel 3, you must first 
> create /etc/inittab and stick in it 
> 
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> Otherwise, Ubuntu doesn't even have the file. 

It 's weird to me that a Linux/Unix system does not have /etc/inittab.
It is nothing wrong with this, I just have worked with systems with
"standard" files under /etc. Ubuntu  and Windows  :)  are systems that
does not have /etc/inittab.

I installed Ubuntu into the notebook I bring to the conference this
week. The night before my trip, I told myself I do not understand Ubuntu
enough so I reinstalled it with Suse 10.2. 

Vu