initdefault has no effect

[Robert Nichols]

Craig White wrote:
> 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.

In the case of chkconfig, the file it's examining is a shell script, and
the parameter lines have to be marked as shell comments.  That's not the
case with inittab.

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