Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-11-01 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:25:20PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > sounds interesting to any other newbies, just do the following: > > > > $su > > Password: > > lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh > >

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > sounds interesting to any other newbies, just do the following: > > $su > Password: > lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh this is the most horrifying thing i have ever seen suggested. this is even worse then Microsoft's

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-10-31 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be > > possible to define a new (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X > > (say 7) and then 'init 7' whenever I feel like shutting down X?

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:16:10PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > So I guess I have no Linux system now. Scratch everything and try again in a > month or so. > Maybe 2.2 will install OK, but I must admit I'm beginning to doubt it. I've > been trying, on > and off, to get Linux working for

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:59:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > No need to define a new runlevel, just use update-rc.d. Debian sets up > runlevels 2-5 as identical to each other with the expectation that users who > want to use them for process/daemon control will customize the runlevels to >

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to > > define a new > > (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X (say 7) and then 'init 7' whenever I > > feel like > > shutting

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to > define a new > (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X (say 7) and then 'init 7' whenever I > feel like > shutting down X? Does this sound possible,

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm running debian 2.0, and thinking about upgrading to 2.1. > > Hmm, you should probably go for 2.2 now, if you can ... Well, first things first - upgrade 2.0 to 2.2 isn't supported! > >I want to shut down X, so that I can do some upgrading of

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm running debian 2.0, and thinking about upgrading to 2.1. Hmm, you should probably go for 2.2 now, if you can ... >I want to shut down X, so that I can do some upgrading of X-related >stuff, without sawing off the branch I'm standing on, so to speak. > >I was advised

init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I'm running debian 2.0, and thinking about upgrading to 2.1. I want to shut down X, so that I can do some upgrading of X-related stuff, without sawing off the branch I'm standing on, so to speak. I was advised to try 'init 3', but this does nothing. I also tried 'init 0' to check if 'init' does