/etc/inittab

Jack Howarth howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu
Mon Jul 25 15:06:06 UTC 2005


    I noticed the following oddity in my upgrade of a FC2 system to
FC4 in the upgrade.log...

Upgrading initscripts-8.11.1-1.i386.
warning: /etc/inittab created as /etc/inittab.rpmnew

What is confusing is that I see...

diff -uNr /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.rpmnew
--- /etc/inittab        2005-07-15 09:54:38.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/inittab.rpmnew 2005-05-25 12:52:57.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #   5 - X11
 #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
 # 
-id:5:initdefault:
+id:3:initdefault:
 
 # System initialization.
 si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

on i386 Fedora whereas a clean install of FC4 on x86_64 shows...

id:5:initdefault:

So the confusing part to me is the fact that my old initab has the
same id setting, 5, as the one from the FC4 clean install. Yet the
rpmnew one on the upgrade of F2->FC4 has an id of 3. Does this id of 3 get
changed to 5 later by anaconda? Thanks in advance for any clarifications.
                Jack




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