getting into console mode (run level)

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/06/21 00:29 (GMT-0400) CJ apparently typed:

> i tried the following key combonations:

> ctrl + alt + F1
> ctrl + alt + F2
> ctrl + alt + F3
> ctrl + alt + F4
> ctrl + alt + F5
> ctrl + alt + F6

> These all got me into different run levels on the console (F1 being 
> runlevel 1 and so on)

> Note that the x server runs on runlevel 7, so ctrl + alt + F7 brings you 
> back to the x server

Linux is a multiuser operating system. Those are all different sessions of the same runlevel, not different runlevels. Non-Debians usually use 6 different runlevels. Debians usually use only 4
different runlevels. The 6 actually used by non-Debians are:

0 - shutdown and power down
1 - single user without networking
2 - multi user without networking
3 - multi user with networking
5 - multi user with networking and X
6 - shutdown and reboot

Number 4 is left undefined for users to customize according to personal needs. Debians dump functions 2, 3 & 5 into #2.
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