Runlevels after F10 install

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 13:57:24 UTC 2008


Dennis J. (dennisml at conversis.de) said: 
> That's doesn't seem to be right. I've got httpd set to 'on' for runlevels 
> 2,3,4 and 5. Doing a "chkconfig httpd off" sets *all* runlevels to 'off'  
> and then doing a "chkconfig httpd on" sets runlevels 2,3,4 and 5 back to  
> on. It behaves like that both on my Desktop running in runlevel 5 (F10) 
> and on a server running level 3 (Centos5).
>
> I always believed the 'chkconfig X on' without specifying the runlevels  
> would turn on the default runlevel specified in the init script because  
> that's the way it seems to behave.

'on' and 'off' affect 2/3/4/5 if you don't specify a level otherwise. See
the man page.

Bill




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