The best Server

[Tony Arnold]

John,

John L Fjellstad wrote:
> "Mumia W." <paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
>> BTW, I hope you're aware that your firewall goes down when you enter 
>> runlevel 1.
> 
> I think that's fine, since no external accessable services should be
> running at runlevel 1 (I'm a little surprised that the network gets
> initiated in runlevel 1 actually)

And therefore not much use as a server!

Other distros use more run levels than Ubuntu, typically 1 through 5. I
cannot remember at which level networking gets turned on by default.

Ubuntu only uses 1 and 2.

Regards,
Tony.
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