In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are there any differences between the run-levels 1 and S? I know >that S10single is not executed for S, but init spawns sulogin >directly. Any functional differences?
Runlevel S doesn't have start/stop scripts. Runlevel 1 is used to shutdown all current running processes. Runlevel 1's last start action is to switch to runlevel S. So "init S" is _very different_ from "init 1", since the first will keep all current processes running and just spawn a shell on the console, while the latter will terminate all running processes, _then_ switch to runlevel S. What about /etc/rcS.d/ you say? Well, the stuff in /etc/rcS.d is run at "sysinit" time (which happens just _once_ after boot), not in single user mode. The 'S' stand for sysinit, not runlevel S. See "man init", "man shutdown", and "man inittab". Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
