Changing Run levels

[Douglas Furlong]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:14, shane c branch wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:59:59 -0500, shane c branch <scbranch at barton.edu> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> As I understand you, you wish to boot to runlevel 3 as default?
> > 
> > Well yes and no.  I do need to boot to runlevel 3 one time to get the 
> > VMware tools installed, but want to keep it at RL 5 the rest of the time.
> 
> I think all you need to do is open a terminal in the gui, then
> #init 3
> 
> That should change the runlevel to 3, allow you to do your update then 
> you can startx to get back to the gui again.
If you want to change the active run level, you want telinit <run level>

Doug