Fedora 9 & runlevel 3

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Mon Jun 16 22:59:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:08:54 -0430
"Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why does it need fixing? The comment in /etc/inittab says exactly what
> it's for, and that's exactly what it does. Specifically, it says
> that /etc/inittab is no longer used for general-purpose setup (as it was
> in earlier versions), it's *only* for setting the default runlevel.

Because the original inittab that caused all the confusion had the
runlevel set like so:

#id:5:initdefault:
id:3:initdefault:

And the rcS script picked up 5 from the commented out line.




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