How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5

Stephen Liu satimis at icare.com.hk
Tue Feb 24 01:19:03 PST 2004


Hi Matt,

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>>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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