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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
