Re: F11pre: Strange setting in inittab

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On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:20 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 16:55 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I just installed F11pre as an update from F10 and while going through
> > all the *.rpmnew files came across this line from /etc/inittab:
> > 
> >         id:3:initdefault
> > 
> > rather than the more conventional:
> > 
> >         id:5:initdefault
> > 
> > Is this a bug or a feature (he said, expecting the answer "yes")?
> 
> It's a "feature". 3 is still the default setting, for historical
> reasons. The installer flips that to 5 for these (very common) install
> cases:
> 
> - Interactive installs[1],
> - LiveCD installs, 
> - kickstart installs with 'xconfig --startxonboot'
> 
> You could argue that 5 should be the default, and the installer should
> flip it to 3 for those cases that require it, but... easiest to just
> leave it all as-is until we get around to replacing the entire thing
> with Upstart[2].
> 
> Anyway, feel free to delete inittab.rpmnew - you probably want to keep
> your system as-is.

Fair enough.

poc

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