From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 01:19:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A10E16A4CF for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:19:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpo01.icare.priv (unknown [203.78.64.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BB943D1F for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from satimis@icare.com.hk) Received: from smtpi01.icare.priv ([10.11.12.46]) by smtpo01.icare.priv with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:12:46 +0800 Received: from icare.com.hk ([203.88.164.55]) by smtpi01.icare.priv with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:12:45 +0800 Message-ID: <403B158D.2070109@icare.com.hk> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:12:45 +0800 From: Stephen Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Navarre References: <403AECC9.4080101@icare.com.hk> <20040224062206.GA92824@dan.emsphone.com> <200402232304.42770.mnavarre@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200402232304.42770.mnavarre@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2004 09:12:45.0835 (UTC) FILETIME=[5DA14DB0:01C3FAB6] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:19:03 -0000 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