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 -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA
