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Author: Arnt Karlsen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:14:48 +0200, KatolaZ wrote in message
<20181022131448.c77g4mldzlcjv763@???>:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 02:54:40PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> > > 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*. ;)


..well, that's still 256 possible runlevel names. ;o)

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