On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:08:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing for > someone new to Debian.
It depends what their existing experiences are. I came to debian without stopping off at redhat or another distro on the way for very long, and I don't find it confusing. In fact, I haven't ever customised my runlevels (although I think I should probably look into it). > All Linux doc's state runlevel 5 is for multiuser with X, while Debian > gdm installs itself to runlevel 2... and this is not so obvious > either. Most docs i read where talking about changing runlevels in > order to stop/start gui login... Debian docs wouldn't, though. > I noticed that, in general, Debian tends to be as close as possible to > the standards (i remember about a test some time ago where Debian was > the closest distro to the official LFH). IMHO in this case it kinda' > goes against the standard... For reference, the standards in question might be: LSB 3.1 chapter 20.5, "Run levels": <http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/runlevels.html> I believe they've adopted these from the redhat convention. And the debian reference, reference, section 2.4.2: <http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-runlevels> -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
