initdefault has no effect

[Sharpe, Sam J]

2009/4/7 D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>:
> | From: "Sharpe, Sam J" <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com>
>
> | runlevel=$(/bin/awk -F ':' '($3 == "initdefault") && ($1 !~ /(#|;)/) { print $2 }' /etc/inittab)
>
> Probably you meant ($1 !~ /^(#|;)/)

Actually I didn't - hence my comment:

> I've assumed that # and ; are comments and aren't allowed in the runlevel descriptions.

# is definitely a comment
; this might be a comment
 # I consider a comment - # is the first non-whitespace character

Because It's only matching on $1 and split on colons, then the only
conceivable bad match would be something like:

id#:5:initdefault:

hence the assumption that # is not allowed in the runlevel descriptions.

-- 
Sam