Re: Newbie Q: Shutdown of GUI & all it's programs?

From: Craig Bergren (cbergren_at_tvbox.bergren.us)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:45:18 GMT

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:41:50 +1100, faeychild wrote:

> Craig Bergren wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:20:56 -0500, Donkey Agony wrote:
>>
>>> gipsy boy wrote:
>>>> Or type "telinit 3" as root.
>>>
>>> What's the difference between "telinit 3" and "init 3"? I've always
>>> used the latter, and hadn't even heard of 'telinit' before this thread.
>>
>> No difference.
>>
> sysinit used to work to didn't it?

I don't recall that to be the case. I remember using init on HP-UX up
until about the time after an upgrade init quit working and asked you
politely to use telinit instead; the current semantics are part of SVID2
standard. That was before I started using Linux. sysinit is the tag in
/etc/inittab that runs before login and the name of the startup script.
Perhaps that's what you are remembering?

CB