On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 15:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/20/2009 03:34 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which > > runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. > > > > Googling shows mostly people set them to the default runlevel, but I > > would like a reference or reason ... > > The reason is that they are used by X, and since X is in the default > runlevel, hal and dbus go there too. > >
Lots of other things use them as well - not just X, so thats not a reason (and lots of systems that dont have X but need dbus and hal). I would like to know why they are started in the default run-level, not at boot which seems more reasonable for low level hardware support. BillK
