Make sure you are root when you edit it.

George


"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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