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I am deploying an httpd server on RHEL6. I've installed the rpm and everything.

Now, when it comes to service startup, most of the post give as example the following line:

chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on

which doesn't makes sense to me.

According to wiki most linux distributions are using runlevel 2 as Multi-User mode without networking. So what is the point of running httpd with no network enabled?

Yossi
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Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia.

Taken from a live, recently installed CentOS 6 system: The network is started in runlevels 2, 3, 4 and 5.

# chkconfig --list network
network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

As a practial matter, only runlevels 3 and 5 ever really get used. Runlevel 3 is the usual "no-graphical-desktop" runlevel, while runlevel 5 is used to start a graphical desktop.

Michael Hampton
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