David Rankin wrote:
something like /etc/rc.d/rc 5?
Let me know. I have learned to look (ask) before leaping (executing) to
keep from landing in hot water...
`init (or telinit) 5' will do the trick for you.
--
Craig Sprout
Network Administrator
Crown Parts and Machine
And yea, on Monday 02 April 2001 17:02, verily David Rankin doth
wroteth:
This is going to sound really dumb, but "How do I get back to my
Hi David, firstly, no question is dumb, only the people that ask it...
just kidding!!!
Anyway, to try and set it through linuxconf I did a
David Rankin wrote:
Craig, I have logged in as root and done 'init 5'. I logged out and I am
still stuck in the rc3 text login. I have tried starting x and then doing
'init 5' but when I log out, the same thing happens -- still in text login.
What am I doing wrong. (I have Linux Mandrake 7.2)
David Rankin wrote:
Craig Sprout wrote:
David Rankin wrote:
something like /etc/rc.d/rc 5?
Let me know. I have learned to look (ask) before leaping (executing) to
keep from landing in hot water...
`init (or telinit) 5' will do the trick for you.
--
Craig Sprout
Craig Sprout wrote:
David Rankin wrote:
Craig, I have logged in as root and done 'init 5'. I logged out and I am
still stuck in the rc3 text login. I have tried starting x and then doing
'init 5' but when I log out, the same thing happens -- still in text login.
What am I doing wrong.
If you ARE running an X session, try hitting [ctrl]+[alt]+[F7}. This should
cycle it properly back to X.
On Monday 02 April 2001 11:37, you wrote:
Craig Sprout wrote:
David Rankin wrote:
Craig, I have logged in as root and done 'init 5'. I logged out and I
am still stuck in the rc3
On Monday 02 April 2001 09:02 am, you wrote:
This is going to sound really dumb, but "How do I get back to my
graphical login without having to reboot?" Scenario: I have had an
ongoing battle getting my machine to handle time properly. I set CMOS
time to GMT and time zone to CST6CDT or
On Monday 02 April 2001 01:13 pm, you wrote:
If you ARE running an X session, try hitting [ctrl]+[alt]+[F7}. This should
cycle it properly back to X.
On Monday 02 April 2001 11:37, you wrote:
Craig Sprout wrote:
David Rankin wrote:
Craig, I have logged in as root and done 'init 5'. I
Peter Hicks wrote:
If you ARE running an X session, try hitting [ctrl]+[alt]+[F7}. This should
cycle it properly back to X.
Peter, I don't know? I was running an X session before doing the
[ctrl]+[alt]+[backspace] this morning. Now when I do the [ctrl]+[alt]+[backspace]
all I get is a blank
Ken Thompson wrote:
On Monday 02 April 2001 01:13 pm, you wrote:
If you ARE running an X session, try hitting [ctrl]+[alt]+[F7}. This should
cycle it properly back to X.
David,
I just finished reading *all* the thread, something ya might try is to issue
the init 3 command and then the
Ken
That did it! Mystery solved. I did 'telinit 3' and then 'telinit 5' and
bingo I
had the graphical login back. Thanks.
Last question:
Since I was logged in as root on tty1 when I did 'telinit 3' and then
'telinit 5'
which gave me the xdm login, do I still have a root login on tty1
David Rankin wrote:
This is going to sound really dumb, but "How do I get back
to my graphical login without having to reboot?" Scenario:
I have had an ongoing battle getting my machine to handle
time properly. I set CMOS time to GMT and time zone to
CST6CDT or "America/Chicago" and the CMOS
David wrote
That did it! Mystery solved. I did 'telinit 3' and then 'telinit 5' and
bingo I had the graphical login back. Thanks.
[snip]
To preserve the desired behaviour through re-boots you will want to edit
/etc/inittab change the 3 to a 5 in the following line:
id:3:initdefault:
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