[CALUG] Difference between telinit and init

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

And what does "init -t 300 3" do? Better yet, what does "(sleep 300; 
exec init 3)&" do?

JIM

Gregory Haase wrote:
> 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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