From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O3fS2-0005kc-Vs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:07:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F093E0F06 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FECDE0D50 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4E97A4F97C5 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:48:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:48:12 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are runlevels 3 4 5 the same? Message-ID: <20100419014812.64cb94ef@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201004182358.17182.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <4BCA9412.9070606@jaftan.com.au> <201004181604.37680.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20100418185001.0e5ae2a4@digimed.co.uk> <201004182358.17182.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs48 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/JJuN.iFYCXu5wz5ESIz/g1A"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 39b373c1-e818-46bb-8721-f76a886cc95f X-Archives-Hash: 5c2abae8833b02b043fea9cc3689a997 --Sig_/JJuN.iFYCXu5wz5ESIz/g1A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:58:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That's whay I used to do until I found the gentoo=3Dnox option, it > > saves maintaining an extra runlevel. =20 >=20 > But X isn't the only thing I don't run when not running X, if you see=20 > what I mean. Only about 3 other things differ at the moment, but I > leave the possibilities open. In that case, another level is a better option. > And I don't have to type anything at the grub command prompt. Of course not, you have an extra GRUB menu option to specify the runlevel, as I do to specify the nox option. > And maintaining the other run level is not arduous anyway, as changes=20 > occur only when I install or remove a system service. Rarely, in other=20 > words. I used a script in local.stop to copy all symlinks in default to the nox runlevel, except the ones I didn't want to run, which were only xdm and vmware, hence my preference for the simpler soluton when it bacame available. > To each his own, of course, as ever. Indeed, choice is wonderful. --=20 Neil Bothwick Uhura: Captain, you're being flamed on channel one. --Sig_/JJuN.iFYCXu5wz5ESIz/g1A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvLqEwACgkQum4al0N1GQOriQCgqLcKDrcmcL4wv3t47KmnpzDd 2g8An0uXcNkJZU5+1BeTL67M5Ti2dWe4 =QfYO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/JJuN.iFYCXu5wz5ESIz/g1A--