Questions

[Dr.G]

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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