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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : Nick Morrison <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
  Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 16:32:38 +1030 (CST)

RE: RH6.0 Starting problem

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Nick Morrison wrote:

> You'll need to get out of that.  It sounds like it's started the X Window
> System [: -- to kill it forcibly, you can usually use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE (as
> opposed to CTRL-ALT-DELETE..), or you can use CTRL-ALT-F[1-6] to switch to
> the other (text-mode) tty's.
> 
> Once you've done that, it's a trivial task to adjust /etc/hosts using vi or
> emacs or joe or whatever.

I think you may find this is run level 5 and it will just restart X again.

Rbe, edit the file /etc/inittab and set the initial run level to 3 and
you'll start in the console by default.

Cheers,
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* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au
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