[CALUG] Difference between telinit and init

[Gregory Haase]

If you look at the man page for init or telinit (actually the same page
on my machine), you will see that other than including a runlevel after
the command, the two have different switches - specifically, telinit
includes the -t switch which allows you to add a time component to the
command.

Running init 3 will instantly cause the init process change the runlevel

Running telinit -t 300 3 will cause the init process to change the
runlevel in 5 minutes.

-Greg

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Which brings up the question: Why TF does "telinit" exist in the first 
> place? What's wrong with simply typing "init 1"? Nothing!
> 
> JIM
> 
> Gary wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I usually accomplish this with the "telinit" command: 
>>   "telinit 1"
>>
>> This drops you into runlevel 1, which is single-user mode.  
>> Networking isn't typically enabled in runlevel 1, but you
>> probably don't need it if the NVIDIA driver resides on the
>> local machine.  Depending on the Linux distro, you might
>> also try "telinit 3", which is multi-user command console
>> mode in RedHat and Fedora Core distros. 
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>   Gary.
>>
>> Edward D. Browne wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hmmm, guess I haven't needed to do this since quite a few
>>> releases ago.  I'm trying to upgrade my graphics driver
>>> (to NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run), which means
>>> I have to get out of X.  As I recall, there was always a menu
>>> option at the login screen to log in without X running, but now
>>> with RH AS3, I see no such option.  Killing X, and everything
>>> that looks connected to X, only results in it automatically
>>> restarting.   init 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 (it doesn't seem to matter)
>>> just causes the machine to reboot all the way back to run
>>> level 6.  What obvious solution am I missing?
>>>
>>> TIA - Ed
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