inittab

Sundar Nagarajan sundar.personal at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 21:38:23 UTC 2009


Florian Diesch wrote:
> Sundar Nagarajan <sundar.personal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Ubuntu (Debian) does not use the runlevels (other than 1). And 
>> (apparently, this is new to me too), Debian does not use /etc/inittab.
> 
> Ubuntu uses upstart instead of sysvinit; upstart uses /etc/event.d/
> instead of inittab
> 
> 
> 
>    Florian

I stand corrected. I knew upstart was in the works, but they have done a 
great job of rolling it out relatively transparently. Time to dig in and 
understand how it works :-)



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Sundar Nagarajan
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