On 2009-02-17 23:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:58:20 H.S. wrote: >> Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no >> runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora. Most common >> use for me of these commands was to restart the gui. In debian, almost >> all such services are controlled scripts in /etc/init.d. > > Has it been removed, then?
No, of course not. What H.S. probably wanted to say is that Debian treats runlevels 2-5 equally and leaves differentiating between them to the local system administrator, unlike Fedora where runlevels 2, 3 and 5 are configured very differently. > I used to use init 0, init 1 and init 6 frequently > until someone told me a few months ago that > > shutdown -(whatever) now > > is better for the system. If you use shutdown, it will send a message to all logged in users and then call init to do the job, so it is not really different. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
