On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 18:19, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > Stephen, > > Going to runlevel 3 is fine for me, but what about the other users on the > network? Can they still log in to the system when it is in single user mode > (am I right in thinking that runl level 3 is single user mode)? > > Andy > Runlevel 3 is not single user mode - it is only console login mode. Single user mode does not allow for any networking. Console login is the same as Runlevel 5 except it does not start you in a graphical environment.
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