I demand that Andrew Halliwell may or may not have written...

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> One thing that always bugged me about debian was their stupid idiotic
> init.d scheme. In other more sensible distros, the runlevels have meaning,
> 1 is single user, 2 is multiuser, 3 is multiuser with network, 5 is
> multiuser with network and display manager.

> But debian fecked that idea up something rotten and put the display manager
> in every single runlevel apart from the single user mode.

Alternatively, everybody else messed it up by not including networking for
runlevels 1 and 2.

> You can correct this fatal and moronic mistake by going into /etc/rc3.d and
> deleting the links to kdm, gdm and xdm...

What mistake?

(BTW, I use none of the above, but still have a display manager.)

> then you could start up in runlevel 3 to do maintenance tasks that require
> the use of basic system functions like networking without all that faffing
> about in single user mode.

OTOH, start up in single-user mode, faff around a bit, press ^D to resume
booting. Works nicely, and doesn't have things like apache running (where
runlevel 3 probably will). :-)

(My laptop's in runlevel 1 as I write this, providing routing for another box
whose wireless networking basically isn't. All that it took was to bring up
eth0, set up a few firewall rules and enable IP forwarding; wlan0 was brought
up in runlevel S.)

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