Changing Run levels
Douglas Furlong
douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Fri Mar 19 16:51:47 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:14, shane c branch wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:59:59 -0500, shane c branch <scbranch at barton.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> As I understand you, you wish to boot to runlevel 3 as default?
> >
> > Well yes and no. I do need to boot to runlevel 3 one time to get the
> > VMware tools installed, but want to keep it at RL 5 the rest of the time.
>
> I think all you need to do is open a terminal in the gui, then
> #init 3
>
> That should change the runlevel to 3, allow you to do your update then
> you can startx to get back to the gui again.
If you want to change the active run level, you want telinit <run level>
Doug
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