Re: initdefault has no effect

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 23:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:23 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> > --- On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan
> > <jonrysh pacbell net> wrote:
> > | I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
> > with
> > | the X Window System running.  What am I missing?
> > |
> > | id:1:initdefault:
> > \--
> > 
> > Use id:3:default:
> > http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#textonly
> 
> I have (of course) tried that too.  Runlevel 1 should have the same
> effect as 3, only more so.
Not true. rl1 has only one user root. No passwd checking.
rl3 is a normal multi user mode without X.
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