Questions

[Matt Alexander]

You'll need to be root to save your changes.  Within KDE, Gnome, or TWM,
there should be a "console" program that you can use to work at the
command line.  In KDE, you can access Konsole by going through the K menu,
then System, then Konsole.  Next, you'll need to change to the root user.
You can use the "su" command to do this.  Type su on the command line and
then enter the password for root.
~M


On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Dr.G wrote:

> Ok, i've look at the man page and tried editing the file, but it will not
> allow me to save it. I also cannot switch to the command line desktop
> because KDE GNOME and TWM are the only options....soo.? Not sure where to go
> from here
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Alexander" <m@netpro.to>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Questions
>
>
> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Dr.G wrote:
> >
> > > I assume by runlevel3 you mean my level of access? <----Noob.
> >
> > When your system boots up it consults /etc/inittab to find the default
> > runlevel.  Your inittab most likely has this line:
> >
> > id:5:initdefault:
> >
> > This tells your system to boot into runlevel 5.  /etc/rc.d/rc5.d contains
> > aliases to the scripts that will be executed at this runlevel.  You'll
> > also see a line like this:
> >
> > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> >
> > This line tells your box to run the X Window System at runlevel 5.  You'll
> > also see other lines for tty's, etc.  So, by changing to runlevel 3,
> > you're exiting out of the GUI environment.  If you wanted to run your box
> > without the GUI, you could change the initdefault to 3 and always boot to
> > a console (I do this for all of my servers).  Level 6 means reboot, so if
> > you type init 6 (as root), you'll reboot your box.  Init 0 is to shutdown.
> > Init 1 is single-user mode.  The other runlevels can be defined for
> > whatever purpose you'd like.
> >
> > Consult the inittab manpage for more detail.
> > ~M
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