Migrating to EC2? Here’s a gotcha that’s documented but not something I even thought to look up. You can see it in the System Output Log from bootup “INIT: Entering runlevel: 4″ The default runlevel for EC2 instances (at least if you’re using the Amazon provided Fedora AMI’s) is 4. The process for editing the scripts is of course the same, it’s just all in /etc/rc.d/rd4.d instead. Alternately, for less command line oriented editing, you can always use the /usr/sbin/setup tool to manage the runlevel – of course you’ll still need to create your own scripts for your non-default packages.

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Tags: amazon, ec2, fedora, linux, runlevel

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