[Sussex] Ubuntu Startup Runlevel....

[David Morris]

Richie Jarvis wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Just a quick Q.  I've just installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my fileserver, and
> have been trying to find out where the runlevel that the system comes up
> on.
> 
> Now, this is the thing, being a redhat/solaris person, I've always
> simply softlinked the script in the /etc/init.d dir to the relevant
> runlevel that I want the system to come up on, in the /etc/rc3.d dir for
> commandline, and /etc/rc5.d for GUI (on redhat).  The default runlevel
> that the system comes up to is defined (on redhat and solaris) in the
> /etc/inittab file with the initdefault line.
> 
> At first glance, it seems that Ubuntu is slightly different - it comes
> up in runlevel 2 - I can see the /etc/init.d contains all the usual
> suspects, and the softlinks are there, but where is the inittab file? 
> Google tells me that Debian uses inittab, so where is it in Ubuntu?
> 
> Reason for doing this:  I want to auto startup LVM and Mysql - so I just
> link them to /etc/rc2.d, right?

update-rc.d is the command to do it, I'm sure the man page will give you
better info than myself.

But it will be something like

update-rc.d mysql defaults

This adds it to all the run levels though i believe
> 
> Thanks in advance....
> 
> Richie
> 
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