Re: [Sheflug] HELP - stuck on runlevel

[fred <fred.dodd [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Janet, All

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 09:07, Seb James wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 21:18, J Simpson V21 wrote:
> > I rebooted into Windows and checked online about runlevel.  I then rebooted
> > and tried typing 0 and then rebooting and tried 5.  With either number I got
> > Enter runlevel: 0
> > INIT: Entering runlevel: 0
> > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> 
> Hi Janet,
> 
> Oh dear. I have found that kudzu is a real pain on Redhat systems. The
> problem being that is generally decided that something had changed with
> the system that was only a temporary change (eg I forgot to plug a mouse
> in) and would then want to mess about configuring the system. I always
> switch it off and find that it reduces headaches. Don't know how to do
> this with graphical config tools, but at command line it would be (as
> root):
> 
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 012345 kudzu off

try run level 1 

no gui and only as root = superuser = admin = administrator

then type

/sbin/chkconfig --level 012345 kudzu off

Unplug the mouse, you would not need it, do you remember root password!!

who is root?

on linux you have root as file system

  /

you have root as a person = root = 0
                                  /|\
                                  / \

and root has a folder, directory called. "root"

 /
 |
 /home
 |
 /root


once logged in as root you can switch run level with telinit 5

start X

root [at] lxbox root]# startx


regards

fred

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