On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:20 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 16:55 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I just installed F11pre as an update from F10 and while going through all the *.rpmnew files came across this line from /etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault
rather than the more conventional:
id:5:initdefault
Is this a bug or a feature (he said, expecting the answer "yes")?
It's a "feature". 3 is still the default setting, for historical reasons. The installer flips that to 5 for these (very common) install cases:
- Interactive installs[1],
- LiveCD installs,
- kickstart installs with 'xconfig --startxonboot'
You could argue that 5 should be the default, and the installer should flip it to 3 for those cases that require it, but... easiest to just leave it all as-is until we get around to replacing the entire thing with Upstart[2].
Anyway, feel free to delete inittab.rpmnew - you probably want to keep your system as-is.
Fair enough.
poc