On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 05:34 -0400, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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 Bear in mind, that this is changing the runlevel, too. If you do this on a machine that provides some network services, such as a Web server or similar things, that changing the runlevel might also be turning those off. Alternatively, you might be turning on some servers that you don't really want to run. This is system-specific. The command chkconfig --list will show you what runs in each runlevel. My point is that changing the runlevel may have side effects beyond simply presenting you a shell prompt. Erik
