initdefault has no effect

[Ed Greshko]

Mike Burger wrote:
> Mike Burger wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>>  
>>>> I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
>>>> with the X Window System running.  What am I missing?
>>>>     
>>>
>>>  
>>>> # id:5:initdefault:
>>>> id:1:initdefault:
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I seem to recall seeing that before, delete the commented-out line.
>>>   
>> In order to comment out a line in inttab, you need to use a
>> semicolon, rather than a pound sign.
> To clarify...the reason that this didn't work, in the first place, is
> that the initial initdefault line wasn't truly commented out, due to
> the pound sign instead of the semicolon.
>
> After that, the init processing for an entry stops on the first
> match...since the "not properly commented" entry was first, it got
> matched, and runlevel 5 was how the system came up.
>
I don't quite understand what you are saying....

You said "the init processing for an entry stops on the first match". 
What is being matched to what?  Also, if the # isn't a comment character
then how are the other 25 lines in the inittab being parsed?

Thanks....

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