[Mageia-dev] bug, omission or feature

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 03/06/12 21:54 did gyre and gimble:
> Sander Lepik wrote:
>> 03.06.2012 20:49, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas:
>>> Editing a text file to change a number, eg. from "5" to "3", is much easier to remember than changing a symlink to 
> "/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target", especially when explaning this to a not so advanced user over the phone, who doesn't have a working X 
> at the moment. (Yes, I actually do have such support calls.)
>>> The support departments are just going to love this. ;-)=
>>>
>> Is there anyone who stops you to contribute a script that does this for the user?
> 
> Like a lot of things in UNIX/Linux, it's easy to do it (just one ln command) once you know how to do it.
> 
> Fedora actually installs an /etc/inittab file that just has a comment in it that tells you how to do it with ln.  That's helpful.

Yup we can do that in mga3 where we won't use inittab at all.

Col


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