If you know Win95, you know it has different "modes", like dos-mode, failsafe mode, and normal. This is quite similar to run-levels in linux. There is a number of different modes and each has a number. Runlevel 6 is "shutdown mode", and you never want to set your computer to start up in that runlevel. (It will behave just like a yo-yo - going up and down all the time) Normally you start in the runlevel resembling a dos-mode. If you tell Yast to use a graphical login (xdm or kdm), it will start up in another Runlevel where X-windows will start automagically. Linux also has a "failsafe-mode" this is called single-user mode, and it also has its own runlevel. If you are logged in as root, you can switch the system to another runlevel with the command init <run-level-number>. I can't remember the exact numbers of the different runlevels, but in the Suse Manual there is a section on how to configure them. Ole On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Phil Sumner wrote:
Being a relative newbie, (sorry.... Linuxly Challenged Person <g>) I am not quite sure about the meaning of runlevels. I have tried to find some explanation but everything seems quite techie... Can anyone give me the newbie-cheat-sheet on the purpose/meaning/whatever of runlevels?
Thanks alot... Phil Sumner -- philip.sumner@stud.umist.ac.uk phil-99@geocities.com
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