On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 07:36, Roy Kidder wrote:
> I especially miss being able to change between
> run level 3 (regular multi-user) and run level 5 (gdm/xdm) for system
> maintenance and stuff. I often found it helpful to have the network
> started, yet log into a standard terminal when patching, etc. I haven't
> figured out how to do that in Gentoo yet.

You know those rc directories in /etc/runlevel that are built up using
the `rc-update add` command?

You can do this:

        rc nonetwork

or 

        rc default

or

        rc noX

or

        rc office

according to the runlevels you have created (you get the idea).

Very nice.

[I'd been using Gentoo a year and only just found this one out. Live and
learn]

AfC
Sydney


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