Run level, run!

October 17th, 2008

Trying to debug why my init scripts weren’t initing on EC2, I checked all the normal places.
The chkconfig tool reported that my services should be on at runlevel 3:

jboss 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off

My /etc/inittab says I was booting to runlevel 3:

id:3:initdefault:

Yet the console did not show my things to be [...]