-> When will Debian follow the Linux Standard Base with respect to init -> runlevels? The current scheme (still in potato, I haven't checked -> woody) basically has just 2 distinct levels - single user and fully -> operational. This throws away most of the power of sysvinit (which -> comes at the cost of considerable complexity).
level 2 should mean running without network services and that means nfs, www etcl; probably inetd and ssh as well. I removed all occurences of these from level 2; only clients are running. -> I would like to run the system without xdm most of the time, but there -> are times when I need it. Also sometimes I want to switch off network -> services but still allow local logins. you still can start it in /etc/rc2.d/... RedHat uses runlevel 4 the same way as 3 but wth xdm (afaik) -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRCNET admin of *.sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ ; http://www.nextra.sk/ Linux is like a wigwam: no Windows, no Gates and an apache inside...
