Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-06-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Yann Dirson: > That just go fine, until you try to use 'halt' or 'reboot': as > specified in the manpage (yes :), these only call shutdown when in > runlevel 1-5. Quite strange IMHO. *BE CAREFUL* trying to reproduce it, > it (probably among other unclean things) doesn't unmount cleanly

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: > * that's not complete either. As already mentionned, the manpage tells > about undocumented runlevels 7-9. It also poorly tells about those > AaBbCc I never really understood. I just tried those runlevels 7-9, with sysvinit_2.71-2. It just need few modifications to have th

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Alexander Koch writes: > ~ # init > Usage: init 0123456SsQqAaBbCc > > 1 is already multiuser, no networking (iirc). > single-user is S or s (just like using the single as argument for lilo)! > 2 is networking (basic, inn comes up etc) > 3 is full networking (whatever you desire) > 4 and 5

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-27 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Jellinghaus) wrote on 27.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On May 26, Kai Henningsen wrote > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Vygonets) wrote on 26.05.97 in > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > BTW, why does runlevel 6 mean reboot? Can't it be runlevel 9? It (6) > > > seems t

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-27 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On May 26, Tom Lees wrote > > No, we don't need xdm in runlevel 4. A better solution would be this (but > it is more difficult, requires multiple inetd.conf files):- > > 2: multiuser, minimal networking, no networking daemons (including inetd). > 3: multiuser, "client" networking (rpc.ugidd, iden

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-26 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Vygonets) wrote on 26.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW, why does runlevel 6 mean reboot? Can't it be runlevel 9? It (6) > seems to be the standard in Linux boxen now, but why? It's been standard in runlevel-based Unix for a long time. That's probably because tradi

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-26 Thread Richard Kaszeta
>BTW, why does runlevel 6 mean reboot? Can't it be runlevel 9? It (6) >seems to be the standard in Linux boxen now, but why? AFAIK, it is 6 for reboot since that is what most othe SysV-ish Unixen use (like Irix and Solaris) -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-26 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 6: reboot > 7-9: do whatever the heck you want with. BTW, why does runlevel 6 mean reboot? Can't it be runlevel 9? It (6) seems to be the standard in Linux boxen now, but why? Vadik. -- Vadim Vygonets * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Uni

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-26 Thread jwalther
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Tom Lees wrote: > > I'd like something similar to: > > 1: single user > > 2: multiuser with minimal networking, probably without offering services > > 3: full networking (NFS, xfs, anonymous ftp, ...) > > 4: xdm? (yes, it is common on Slackware and RedHat to start xdm > >ac

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-26 Thread Tom Lees
On 23 May 1997, Milan Zamazal wrote: > I know nothing about runlevel standards, just my opinions: Same here. > > "AK" == Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AK: level 1 is without net, 2 is with it all (imo including nfs > AK: and the like) and 3 is xdm, 6 was shutdown or

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-24 Thread Sam Ockman
Actually Debian could potentially use all the standard levels 0-6 for itself, and we could define the not so standard levels 7-9 to be totally for users purposes. That would give us much more space. We could then even take one of the 0-6 and reserve it for future use by Debian. And users would h

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-23 Thread Milan Zamazal
I know nothing about runlevel standards, just my opinions: > "AK" == Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AK: level 1 is without net, 2 is with it all (imo including nfs AK: and the like) and 3 is xdm, 6 was shutdown or halt or AK: whatsoever. at least that i remember from