On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:53:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > so this runlevel business is soley about X. fine, i can think of NO > daemon that relies on xdm being running off hand. certianly not > enough for you to dictate to me how i setup my runlevels.
I don't know about xdm, but there certainly are many daemons both existing and imaginable, that would benefit from running only when X is. xfs (X Font Server, not the filesystem). Overwhelming majority of users are running xfs locally, and for them it would be beneficial to have xfs running only when X is. VNC-alike screen sharing services. I suppose one could be implemented on top of X, as a separate daemon, handling network connections. Win4Lin and VMWare (workstation versions) probably could have daemons running. These would only be needed when X is run. Etc etc. There are plenty of daemons generally making sense in a workstation-alike environment. Providing a separate runlevel for X does not limit anyone, but helps the great majority of users. In a Red Hat environment, I often switch between runlevels 3 and 5 (text console/graphical), but making the same happen in Debian is more cumbersome. You repeatedly state that having 4 identical runlevels gives sysadmins the liberty to define them as they will. Well, how many have you redefined and use regularly? Best regards, -- Matti Airas CISSP, Bach, Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blowpipe, XM, Police, 192.47.242.7, PPP, +358 50 34 64 256 Gamma, MKSEARCH, white noise, e95, NORAD, http://www.iki.fi/mairas/ HRT, STE, S/Key, BMDO, walburn, Arnett, DDP,
