mikshaw
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Posted: Oct. 19 2006,02:41 |
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Quote | Init 3 should be a multi user mode without a Windowing system, like other Linux systems. | Some distros do this, others do not. Mandrake, Suse, and a handful of others use runlevel 3 as multiuser textmode. In Debian systems, runlevels other than 0,1, and 6 don't really have any specific pupose until the user decides what to do with them, as far as I know. In the Debian-based DSL runlevel 5 logs you in and starts x automatically, but it's still technically text mode...the graphical system is not started during the init process, but rather from dsl's bash login script. If you remove "startx" from ~/.bash_profile you will not enter X.
In any case, I don't think there are any distributed non-distro-specific applications that require a certain runlevel other than the 3 above to perform in a certain way.
If you're using the system as an embedded server, try runlevel 2. You'll probably need to be root to run the server anyway.
And finally, DSL is extremely flexible. It's simplicity and size make it much easier to tweak than some of the larger bulkier distros. Perhaps what you are implying is that DSL needs to be more like other distros?
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