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On Wed, August 10, 2005 10:38, Grant Sewell said: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:56:27 +0100 (BST) > John Horne wrote: > >> The way I use is: >> >> Type ctrl-alt-F1 and login as root. >> Then enter 'init 3' for multi-user (non-X) runlevel. >> When you're done doing whatever, enter 'init 5' to get X started >> again. >> >> >> John. > > Just for clarification (since this is an archived list): > This approach (changing runlevels) will work on a lot of distros, but not > all. For instance, Debian uses runlevel 1 for "single user mode" and > runlevel 2 for everything else by default (and 0 for shutdown, and 6 for > reboot) - it is down to the user/admin to configure any "fine tuning". > Also, Slackware systems by default use runlevel 4 for starting the X > session, not runlevel 5. > Yes, good point. It's a shame the runlevels don't seem to be standardised a bit more. As far as I remember though Unix itself isn't standard on this - different unices will use different runlevels for different things. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html