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Switching between system runlevels

To: MiscAtOpenBSD <misc@openbsd.org>
Subject: Switching between system runlevels
From: Andrew Falanga <afalanga@linora.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:34:49 -0700
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Hi again,

Well, I think I've got my X stuff figured out. At least, for the time being. I had forgotten about the ctrl+alt+keypad +/- for switching between display modes, and after reading through some X man pages I was reminded of it. I had finally gotten a stable server running, it was just that the default display was set to 1024x768 with a display size of ?640x480? Anyway, that problem is overted for the time being.

Now, the question at hand. Is there a way to switch from one run level to the other without doing a system reboot and entering -s at the boot prompt? (Side note, yes, I'm running on the i386 architecture.) I've been reading through the halt(8), reboot(8), boot_i386(8) man pages but I'm not really finding what I want, and I've tried doing things like 'init <run level>' but all I get is init is already running. Evidently, that type of init switching is only supported on SVRxx type systems? I hope I've worded that correctly. Anyway, I'm just wondering. This type of functionality has been rather valuable to me lately while troubleshooting Linux systems and I was wondering if such functionality was supported in OpenBSD.

Thanks for the help with X too by the way.

Andy

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