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Originally Posted by Shtaaf
Its either Level 7 or 4, i cant remember all the way back at UNI. Its the mode at which u interact with the Unix Environment. Upon a "safe" shutdown of a unix Server, it will bring it self down to level 1, which have closed the filesystem and it is safe to reboot or close.
I only brought up Unix, because I have worked with it, I admit that I have no knowledge of Linux.
Arkay you are right about the OS used on the Home Server thingy though, if something does stuff up, you have no way to troubleshoot it as it is closed code... No applying patches or fixes or reinstalling the OS on it if its all a web interface...
But hey its all friendly conversation, if someone is wrong, so be it, no ones perfect.
regards,
Stefano
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No probs. Was just wondering what you were getting at.
In Unix (linux included), they are called run-levels. The systems typically are fully up at run level 5. At each runlevel step more applications/services are start/stopped.
When the system comes up it runs each level consecutively (shutting down is the same in reverse).
It's a very handy thing to do. You have full control over the boot order and can streamline application/system startup/shutdown.
I have rarely seen a box fail during this process. At any rate Windows can also fail mid shutdown or startup.
Much of the faults we see are hardware related and all running OS's suffer them. How they recover from them is the real evidence of good design.
Cheers,
Arkay.