The best Server

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Jul 9 12:58:36 UTC 2008


Tony Arnold wrote:

> 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.

and 0 and 6
-- 
derek





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