Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:12:45 +0800 From: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> To: Matt Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 Message-ID: <403B158D.2070109@icare.com.hk> In-Reply-To: <200402232304.42770.mnavarre@cox.net> References: <403AECC9.4080101@icare.com.hk> <20040224062206.GA92824@dan.emsphone.com> <200402232304.42770.mnavarre@cox.net>
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Hi Matt, - snip - >>FreeBSD does not have "init" levels. You've got off, single-user, and >>multi-user. >> >> >As Dan said, FreeBSD does not have init levels but you can switch to a text >console from X-windows Ctrl + Alt + F[1-8] will all take you to a login >prompt, Ctrl + Alt + F9 will take you back to X-Windows. Note that X must be >running for this to work, otherwise you'll just have text consoles available. >The number of consoles is configurable somewhere, I just can't remember >where. > > Noted with tks. Do you know the heading/topic of configuring consoles which will assists me to search on forum/handbook. FreeBSD is quite new to me. Tks >>>and the method switching to multi-user-mode from single-user-mode >>>instead of rebooting PC >>> >>> >To go to single-user do 'shutdown now' as root, It'll ask you for a path to a >shell or you can hit enter for /bin/sh > > Noted with tks B.R. Stephen
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