F9: Telinit 5 and make it stick

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 14:14 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> 2008/5/20 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:55 +0200, Damian Myerscough wrote:
> ...
> >> Edit the /etc/inittab file.
> 
> > Not. F9 uses upstart and things have changed. It's going to take some
> > getting used to. /etc/inittab now contains only one line:
> >
> >        id:5:initdefault:
> 
> Which, amazingly enough, is the line in /etc/inittab that he needs to change :o)

Again: not. All that line does is to set the default runlevel to 5,
which is what he wants, so changing that isn't going to solve his
problem. The issue is what's actually happening at level 5, and that's
no longer specified in the /etc/inittab file but in the scripts
in /etc/event.d.

poc