Running X in runlevel 3

[Steve Searle]

Around 10:49pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 (UK time), John Wendel scrawled:

> chkconfig --list | grep 3:on
> chkconfig --list | grep 5:on
> 
> On my box, these commands give the same output, so there are no extra 
> services started at runlevel 5.
> 
> I always start the box in runlevel 3 and use startx. So far, no 
> problems. Of course, I don't get the shiny display manager screen.

On my FC6 box, readahead_later is started at runlevel 5, but not at 3.
No idea what this means though (readahead_early is started at both
levels)

You can check to see if there is a different number of services with
/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep -c 3:on
/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep -c 5:on

Steve

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