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[Gnu iBook 2 <gnu_ibook_2@xxxxxxx>]

SuSE has changed the runlevel to be in conformity to LSB. I am 
running SuSE7.3 and in my /etc/inittab it says:

# runlevel 0  is  System halt   (Do not use this for initdefault!)
# runlevel 1  is  Single user mode
# runlevel 2  is  Local multiuser without remote network (e.g. NFS)
# runlevel 3  is  Full multiuser with network
# runlevel 4  is  Not used
# runlevel 5  is  Full multiuser with network and xdm
# runlevel 6  is  System reboot (Do not use this for initdefault!)


On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 05:18  PM, Rogier Maas wrote:

> > Yet what I want is to properly shut all services down which are 
> > related
> > to the GUI - which is more than just blowing away X. Of course I don't
> > know exactly what is going to be affected by CTRL-ALT-Backspace, 
> > but my
> > suspicion is that it would
> > 'just' kill the server - and a lot of processes are going to die as
> > collateral dammage.
> Yes, that's not wanted, mostly.
>
> > Anybody care to explain the difference?
> Well, letting X shutting down itself by selecting some 
> shutdown-command and
> killing the server after all other processes have died is the more 
> nice way
> to do it, as well as init 2 (not 3). ctrl-alt-BS kills the server 
> and takng
> all procs with it.
>
> > Also, _should_ 'init 3' close down xdm (and consequently X) or not?
>
> runlevel 0: reboot
> runlevel 1: single user
> runlevel 2: multiuser-network
> runlevel 3: multiuser-network-GUI
> runlevel 4: not used
> runlevel 5: not used
> runlevel 6: halt
>
> > * Martin Schulz <schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [Dec 24. 2001 19:48]:
> > > Until SuSE 7.1, I could simply restart the X server by typing 'init
> > > 3', then 'init 5'.
>
> I reckon you are mistaken SuSE Linux with some other OS (I think 
> SunOS or
> similar); SuSE has always had these runlevels. 5 is never used 
> before AFAIK
> and runlevel 3 is multi-user with network and GUI.
>
> ctrl-alt-bs will indeed restart X but isn't the nicest way, but I 
> could very
> well be mistaken too. I've only used Linux as servers for anything and
> nothing, mostly without X.
>
> Greetings,
> Rogier Maas
>
> >   Martin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mads Martin Jørgensen [mailto:mmj@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: December 24, 2001 7:38 PM
> > To: Martin Schulz
> > Subject: Re: [SLE] init 3 doesn't shut down X any longer?
> >
> >
> > * Martin Schulz <schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [Dec 24. 2001 19:48]:
> > > Until SuSE 7.1, I could simply restart the X server by typing 'init
> > > 3', then 'init 5'.
> >
> > Why not just hit CTRL-ALT-Backspace? That will have X restart.
> >
> > --
> > Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
> > "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
> > and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort."
> >                                 -- A. P. J.
> >
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