Can anyone explain the use of init3

[Thomas Taylor]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:03, sujit sugathan wrote:
> Hi everyone
> I've this question nagging me for sometime.Can anyone explain to me how and
> why the command init3 is used.
> thanks
> --
> sujit

Init3 is used to get to a command line interface.  The how is from a terminal 
in a graphical interface.  That's in you only want an ocassional cli mode, to 
make it permanent, edit /etc/initab changing the 5 in the line 
"id:5:initdefault:" to a 3.

HTH
Tom


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Tom Taylor
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