Interestingly, man runlevel doesn't define runlevel, it simply provides info on how to querry and manipulate. I guess man page authors sometimes ignore, or are stumped, by the basics. Just a speculation based on unscientific observation. Gregory Nowak writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 07:25:53PM -0400, John McCann wrote: > > 1. How does one go into "single user" mode? > > You would do that with the command > > telinit x > > as root, where x is the number of the run level to switch to. As for > which run levels control what, I believe that is > distribution-specific. In slackware, run level 1 is the single user > run level, and 3 is the multiuser run level for running text consoles > without running the x window system. > > > 2. What is telinit? > > The best answer I can give you is to read the telinit(8) manual page, > which will tell you all you ever wanted to know. > > > and > > 3. What is a run level? > > > > Hmmm, well, this may not be the best answer, but a run level is a > state in which the system can be. For example, such a state could be > run in single user mode, allowing only one person to be logged in at a > time, or this state could be multiuser mode, where multiple users can > login. This is most likely not the best answer, but again, the > init/telinit man pages might answer this better, or someone else here > will provide a better answer then I have. > > Greg > > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBgEJn7s9z/XlyUyARAvEhAJ97gCiMb3tPF+zywAyxMqIjGO0abQCfaQTP > a4iTc597A8dy9zaNwDEVZSI= > =z97e > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
