initdefault has no effect

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Mike Burger wrote:
> >> Ed Greshko wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hummm....  Bad news....
> >>>
> >>> I had to test this and have in the intttab file....
> >>>
> >>> #   5 - X11
> >>> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> >>> #
> >>> ; id:5:initdefault:
> >>> id:3:initdefault:
> >>>
> >>> And the system still comes up in run level 5.

> Yet the fact remains, ; had no more effect than #.  If you don't trust
> the test that I did, you can do it yourself in order to prove it.
----
I've done nothing to study the code but it seems consistent with the way
chkconfig also derives the runlevels from the initscripts. It leads to a
guess that there is just a quick & dirty type grep for the first result
and run with it.

Craig


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