The best Server

[Tony Arnold]

Derek,

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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

Yeah, OK. 0 is halt, and 6 is reboot! I really meant the levels a system
could be running at while still being used (with the default config)!

Regards,
Tony.
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