[Chester LUG] Help with runlevels

[Paul Sinclair]

David Holden wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2008, Stuart Burns wrote:
>> Hi Everyone.
>>
>> I have what most of you must consider a  really basic question.
>>
>> Obviously when a machine boots, it reads inittab. This tells it which
>> runlevel to use.
>>
>> However, when executing, does it go through all the runlevels. Ie if I run
>> a full level 5 system, does it execute runlevels 234 to get there or does
>> it just run the script for level 5 ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Stuart
> 
>  Good question, not really sure, although Logically I would expect it to go 
> through all run levels up to 2 as this is the point at which it reaches multi 
> user mode.
> 
> You could test by setting a service to run in level 3 and not in 5 and reboot, 
> if you are set to default to 5 and the server is running then it must have 
> gone through 3.
> 
> Dave.
> 
> 
> 
You could try From Power Up To Bash Prompt HOWTO. It will tell you more 
than you want to know but probably answer your question.

Paul