Run-Level 1

[Florian Diesch]

Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 14:41 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 17:35 +0530, Jitender Kiraria wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is there any way that I can set the Ubuntu 10.04 to Boot in Run Level
>> >> 1(  single User mode) when system boots????????(  I mean system boots
>> >> automatically in Run level 1).........
>> >>
>> >> I can do it in Fedora by editing /etc/inittab
>> >> But in Ubuntu I couldn't find this file............
>> >
>> > I have yet to understand why Ubuntu doesn't utilize it.
>> 
>> Because Ubuntu has transferred the functionality of "/etc/initab" to
>> "/etc/init/*", except for "initdefault" (AFAIK) most probably because
>> Ubuntu and Debian only use a default of runlevel 2.
>
>
> Right, I was just openly wondering why? Isn't the use of /etc/inittab
> supposed to be the universal standard? 

No. It's just a config file used by SysV init. As Ubuntu doesn't use
SysV init but Upstart this file is not present by default (but used by
Upstart if it is there).


> Just wondering if there was some sort of benefit to the fork. 

Upstart offers much features SysV init doesn't. For end users the most
visible one is a much faster boot time.



   Florian
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