Changing Run levels

[shane c branch]

Douglas Furlong wrote:

> 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

D'oh! Yes, I meant telinit.


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regards,

shane