Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/12/2011 09:42 AM, Richard Brown pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Okay, maybe I'm missing something in this long debate..but, what exactly
> is the problem here?
>
>
> systemctl doesn't have the same concept of runlevels as sysvinit
>
>
> init 3 used to be a convenient way of booting a system that had X
> installed without loading X
>
>
> systemctl disable xdm.service is arguably just as easy a way of
> accomplishing the same thing with systemd, with systemctl start
> xdm.service being how you'd start X when you want it, systemctl stop
> xdm.service being how to stop it when you're done with it..
>
>
> Am I missing something here?

The only thing missing is the education of the masses.

And the fact that the "new" way of doing this is so much easier then 
using   init 3   &  init 5. :-) Maybe I'll create a couple of new 
aliases like:

alias init3="systemctl stop xdm.service"
alias init5="systemctl start xdm.service"

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Ken Schneider
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