satelliteuser083 Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 I know a little about the various runtime levels set by the system, but could do with more detail. Could someone help me out with a site, manual or something like that? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 http://www.skullbox.net/init.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 If you've got your Mandriva documentation installed, it's in the Command Line Manual (on the menu under More Applications?). This is the relevant page from the latest version publicly available (Mandrake 10.1). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 The graphical desktop (KDE< Gnome etc) is runlevel 5. The other runlevels that are common are 3 (no X) and 1 (single user, used for maintenance). A very short overview is here; This one is more verbose (for Red hat/fedora, so not 100% correct but pretty applicable to Mandriva).. Basically run-levels are different 'states' of the system in which different sets of services (programs /daemons) are run: for maintenance you would only have the bare minimum, for level 3 you need all, except the X-windows environment, etc. I would read the following man pages for info on manipulating: service, chkconfig, init, inittab. Examples of such services can be email (split over getting email, an email transfer agent such as postfix), samba, ftp, cron, at etc. A vanilla mandriva install has just over 30 of these services (quite a few of which only do something once during booting). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Many thanks , enough there to keep me off the streets for a few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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