problems with system services

[bruce]

Thanks, James, for straightening me up.  As you may suspect, I have bee 
using Red Hat until recently.
bruce

On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:51, James Gray wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:07, bruce wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:31, Albert wrote:
> > > Hi all:
> > >
> > > 1) Apache: Which of all the /etc/rcX.d or /etc/init.d scripts is
> > > in control of the apache web server? There are K and S entries
> > > for it. Is this explained somewhere?
> >
> > In /etc/inittab there are a couple of lines like
> >
> > # The default runlevel.
> > id:5:initdefault:
> >
> > The "5" tells the system to boot up in run level 5, which is
> > graphical (KDE), multi-user.   This also tells the system to use
> > /etc/rc5.d to boot up.
>
> Not in Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Debian.  This is very much a
> RedHat/SuSE/Madriva-ism. Run levels can be anything (technically). 
> Run level 0 is usually "shutdown", 6 is normally "Reboot" and 1 is
> usually for single-user/admin mode.  Run levels 2-5 can be anything
> you want and most *nix'es have their own spin on them.  In
> Kubuntu/Ubuntu/Debian, run level 2 is for ALL multi-user stuff, with
> or without a GUI login etc.
>
> These pages might be useful:
> http://www.phildev.net/runlevels.html
> http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/RunLevels
> (Read the last line on that 2nd page - Debian-based distro's are the
> exception)
>
> If you want to prevent booting into X (console login then "startx")
> you need to update the rc scripts:
>
> sudo update-rc.d -f kde remove
>
> "man update-rc.d" for the details.
>
> Now that you're up to speed on the Debian/Ubuntu "way" you can set up
> a custom run level (say "5"?) for GUI logins, and leave run level 2
> for console.  NOW you can edit inittab and specify 2/5 for
> console/gui as you see fit :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> James