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Author: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 02:54:40PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

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> > sysvinit currently supports runlevels 0-6, with 0 and 6 have special,
> > fixed meaning. There is *currently* no way of naming a runlevel using
> > more than one character, due to the way the "change runlevel"
> > information is communicated to the init process.
> >
> > In Debian/Devuan, runlevel 1 has traditionally been assigned to
> > single-user mode, and runlevel 2 to multi-user mode. But there is no
> > written rule about that (meaning that a sysadmin can move and
> > configure runlevels around as she wishes).
>
> ..I thank you both for your excellent heads-up on the *current*
> status of sysvinit, a first step would be try utf-8 characters
> like 'telinit å ' etc ... :o)
> Aaand, I'm still not saying this is an awesomely good idea. ;o)
>


Sorry, I should have been more precise on that: sysvinit currently
supports only runlevel names consisting of *one byte*. ;)

HND

KatolaZ

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