The best Server

[David Curtis]

debian wrote:
>> In short, going into runlevel one, "sucks" as a way to shut down the 
>> graphical software in Linux. Runlevel 1 is the system maintenance 
>> runlevel; you go into it only rarely, and only so long as it takes to 
>> fix the system so that it can run normally.
> Yes!! Especially since in ubuntu 8.04 (desktop edition), it puts your
> system in a recovery recovery console (believe it or not it did when i
> issued the command). I definately do not recommend putting a _Server_ in
> recovery mode..think of what hackers could do if they hacked in to your
> network....
> 
> btw it shuts down more then just your firewall (or on my system it did).
> it also shut down my wifi connection from what i can remember (my
> computer flashed it by so fast i only saw bits and pieces of what it
> shut down)
> 
It shuts down almost all daemons and that would include, unless you 
really hacked up init.d, httpd (apache for ex.), cupsd (printing), 
whatever daemon runs for mysql or postgresql, whatever MTA your using.

Not really good for a server. ;-)

Dave