> 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.... Again...within inittab, the # character is not a comment delimiter...the ; character is. Because the # was used, the first default line was matched, therefore processing to determine the default runlevel stopped at the first match...the line with the 5 in it. Subsequent lines, which do not contain "initdefault" are processed, because they do not match the "initdefault" parameter that was matched above. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
