Re: initdefault has no effect

Ed Greshko wrote:
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....


Never mind..... I see what you are saying after all.... I forgot for
the moment that the original id line was left in the modified file....
Duh...

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