> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gaddis, Jeremy L. > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:05 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: Apache Server (Oracle) > > On 12/22/06, mark <mroth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually, speaking of Oracle, and startup scripts, anyone know what > > the correct runlevel is to start Oracle - 1? 2? 3? > > Um, whichever runlevel you're running in? There is no right or wrong. > I may very well be wrong, but I believe Red Hat defaults to > runlevel 5. For my servers, I always either 1) change this > to runlevel 3, or > 2) disable the startup of X11 in the default runlevel. A > quick check shows a number of my servers at runlevel 3. > > If you want Oracle to startup automatically after the server > boots up, you'll want to enable startup for whatever your > default runlevel is (which can be found in /etc/inittab). > > I've always used run-levels as the following: 1: single-user 2: multi-user (stand-alone) 3: multi-user (networked) 5: X applications I've actually never used 4 myself, but I guess somebody can customize it to a combination of 3 and 5. So I guess oracle can be used anywhere from 2 to 5 but I usually set it to 345 since I consider runlevel 3 the first server level. Runlevel 2 was the standard (and topmost) runlevel 20 years ago when things like NFS were not prevalent. DISCLAIMER: I am no longer an IT professional and would defer to the current professionals on the list. That's my take, Michael -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
