Anton Aylward wrote:
Patrick Shanahan said the following on 04/12/2013 07:54 AM:
They have not *really* been "done away with", but have really changed considerably in ?definition?. Runlevel is/was a system state where certain capabilities are present such as (loosely) 5, the graphical state, and 3, multi-user/networking state. Now you have targets which have similar names and capabilities but are not numbered and represent a "dynamic" state where the deamons may not be active but will be called if necessary.
Indeed.
Realistically we only used runlevels 1, 3 and 5
That is: single use with networking turned off; multi-user with networking tuned on; graphical mode.
On linux, 'S' became useful -- it came up before the boot scripts were run. There are around 19 uniq (39 total) scripts in /etc/rc.d/boot.d.
We still have those, its just that we now have clearer names rather than numbers.
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