On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:56 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > I never needed all of those run levels, It was just confusing and > useless complexity. And 2-3 of them were always unused anyway, so > getting rid of them was sensible. Most of the time, we don't. But then it can be handy for some boxes to have different run-levels. e.g. A server that's usually left alone on the shelf, occasionally remote managed by command line. Even less occasionally, you might plug a keyboard and monitor into it, and want a full graphical environment while you work on it. It's handy to be able to start-up/shut-off all the unnecessary user-interfaces in one go. e.g. Fixing up a machine that's just gone out of whack. It's handy to be able to easily start up in a mode where nearly all services are not started up. So you can do repairs, or reset the list of what will start-up, and get a computer to actually finish booting when something it used to demand existed no-longer does (like NFS-mounted resources when you unplug a machine to use in another location). I'm yet to read how this important functionality, to a large number of people will be handled, with the move away from the old system. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
