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" To: 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 > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >