Ubuntu: How do you change default runlevels without inittab?

[Jack]

But we are talking about a debian system, not a SysV
system.

I'm well aware of SysV and the relevant runlevels, but
that's not relevant to a debian system. One should
never assume.

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> On Monday 16 July 2007 06:08:50 pm Jack wrote:
> 
> > "modern" debian based distros runlevel 2-5 are
> > identical "out of the box". I believe that it
> > defaults to runlevel 2. So I'm surprised that
> you're
> > actually in runlevel 5. Are you sure of this?
> 
> On a real SysV system, level 5 would be the
> GUI+networking level, so when one 
> sees a fully on-line GUI on Linux, one assumes it's
> in runlevel 5.  Here's 
> the standard table:
>