[ale] Changing run levels

[James CE Johnson]

> 
> I didn't know init 6 would restart the hole system.   And I had 22 days of
> uptime going here..

Sorry, my bad. I think someone else noted that 'init 5' is actually
what I intended. Sleep deprivation & all that :-(

> A lot off stuff gets dumped to the screen while the system is just setting
> there in  init 3 too

Yea, that's just the normal boot stuff though. Right?

> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James CE Johnson [mailto:jcej at tragus.org]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:46 PM
> To: haswes at mindspring.com
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Changing run levels
> 
> >
> > Does anyone know how to shutdown KDE?  I want to change to just the
> runlevel
> > and not have X running?  Since I am not really on the system it is a
> waste.
> > No matter what I try I still have the KDM-greet screen which is running
> > under X?!?!
> 
> My preference is to:
>    init 3
> 
> That is, change to "normal" multi-user mode instead of X-mode. Then
> edit your /etc/inittab and change the initdefault entry so that it
> never boots into X again! You can always to 'xinit' to start X when
> you want. Or if you're really sick you could 'init 6' to restart the
> muck.
> 
> On the other hand, I generally leave X running even if I'm not going
> to be on the box for a while because it handles the monitor DPMS stuff
> better than console mode.
> 
> <flame suit on>
> Personally, I'm not a fan of Big Desktops (KDE, GNOME, etc...). I like
> to use a nice, small window manager that does nothing but manage windows
> and give me a configurable root-window menu. If you're running in a
> resource-limited environment (yea, my dual-CPU, 512M system is limited:)
> you might want to consider that approach.
> </flame suit on>
> 
> > Next one is one I thought of while running an errand.  Just wondering if
> > there are reveres compatibility problems with Kernels and software.  An
> > Example would be a package that was designed when Kernel 2.0 was new.  And
> > say you upgrade or install Kernel 2.4.  The M$ example would be that error
> > you get when you try to install a package and you get that "We don't
> support
> > NT", error.
> 
> I think you'll generally get compile errors if something cares about the
> kernel version & doesn't support what's installed. If you're installing
> rpm's (or debs?) the package manager will complain that you don't have
> the right kernel rpm installed.
> 
> > Adrin
> >
> >
> >
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