Oh well, today 'init 3' works nicely whenever I try. Although I have seen it _not_ working at different occasions on different systems, I am unable to come up with the exact circumstances. If it comes up again I'll be a little more circumspect. Thanks for all your replies. Martin -----Original Message----- From: Gnu iBook 2 [mailto:gnu_ibook_2@mac.com] Sent: December 24, 2001 9:53 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] init 3 doesn't shut down X any longer? 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
[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@suse.de] Sent: December 24, 2001 7:38 PM To: Martin Schulz Subject: Re: [SLE] init 3 doesn't shut down X any longer?
* Martin Schulz
[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.
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