Bug 188513

Summary: init 9 also works
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: acount closed by user <a1459440>
Component: sysvinitAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description acount closed by user 2006-04-10 20:03:13 UTC 
/sbin/init may work only with "0123456Ss" but '9' also works and it's not
defined at /etc/inittab

# init 9
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-04-10 20:11:47 UTC 
init supports 0-9 and the special letter runlevels, we just don't define 7/8/9.
Comment 2 acount closed by user 2006-04-11 17:40:51 UTC 
> init supports 0-9 and the special letter runlevels, we just don't define 7/8/9.

but # init 9 "works" . And the system is left in a _catatonic_ state. Did you
try it ?
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-04-11 18:15:28 UTC 
It's doing what is (more or less) expected - it's switching to a runlevel with
no processes to run, so it kills everything.

As mentioned in the man page:

       Runlevels  7-9  are  also  valid, though not really documented. This is
       because "traditional" Unix variants donât use  them. 

Since this requires root access to do, it's not really a big issue, AFAICT.
Comment 4 David Lawrence 2007-06-22 02:18:07 UTC 
Package name is now sysvinit in latest Fedora.