> According to the man page for chkconfig, the on and off options affect > only runlevels 3,4,5. Does anyone know why that is? only if you don't specify a --level argument. it's that way, because of RedHat's default runlevel configuration; wherein: 1 - single user 2 - multiuser, no network 3 - normal, text-mode 4 - undefined 5 - normal, with GUI autostarted since runlevel 2 is sort of a 'maintenance level'; you wouldn't want to cause things to be started there, accidentally. > In my kickstart post install script, I have a section that turns off > a bunch of services and I was doing it by: > > chkconfig <service> off > > but then noticed that run level 2 always remained on. What are the > consequences of doing it this way, vs specifying all levels manually? > I'm not sure what happens during runlevel 2 so I don't know if this > is a big deal or not. you could do a 'chkconfig --level 2345 <service> off'; or a 'chkconfig --del <service>'. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700