David wrote:
> Cheers Robert,
>> Worked a treat!
>> No amount of "footering" would allow me to go with the init3 command.
> Reading my book of many words came up with telinit but this only
> partially worked as it blanked the screen and left me with a flashing
> cursor which would not do anything - effectively machine locked
> requiring a forced reboot. In the end I edited intitab.
>> Where did I go wrong? Linux = Fedora Core 5
>> Cheers
>> D
Not too sure why it didn't work as I haven't used Fedora 5 but thinking
about it now, you could just have deleted those directories and just
restarted gdm using /etc/init.d/gdm restart from the console. I think I
made things unnessarily complicated!
Oh well, at least its working :)
Regards
Robert
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