[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Jeff Garzik]

On 07/14/2010 02:13 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 14.07.10 13:44, Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>>
>> Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said:
>>> There's also the systemd.unit= kernel command line option which you may
>>> use to boot into different targets. See the feature page for details.
>>
>> Does it pull this from inittab if there's no other configuration for
>> this?
>
> Ok. You got me on this one. Systemd does actually not parse the
> inittab. That cruft looked a bit too ugly and clumsy and old for us to
> support.
>
> However, we have added replcacements for everything is was used
> for. i.e. the gettys are started now via normal services.
>
> The replacement for the default runlevel stuff is a symlink in
> /etc/systemd/system. You could do this:
>
> /etc/systemd/system/default.target → /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target
>
> to avoid the graphical UI, and boot into the text console only
> (i.e. much like the old runlevel 3)
>
> Or you could do this:
>
> /etc/systemd/system/default.target → /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target
>
> to boot into the graphical stuff by default. This is the default as we
> package it.

Or you could just parse inittab and notice when runlevel 3 was listed. 
Keeps everything nice and compatible, including existing manuals and 
books, and sysadmin knowledge.

	Jeff