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# Chapter 4. Appendix

# 4.1. Questions and Answers

## 4.1.1. Q1: "I played around with the default runlevel and now my machine reboots all the time"

Enter `linux single` at the LILO prompt

     LILO: linux single

and press <ENTER> to boot up in single user mode. Then edit the file `/etc/inittab` and change the default runlevel to something sane (3 should usually be OK).

## 4.1.2. Q2: "My machine "halts" just after booting"

See question Q1 above.

## 4.1.3. Q3: "I scheduled some services to be run in runlevel X using KSysV, but they aren´t"

If you´re using SuSE or Delix (DLD) distributions: you also have to edit a distribution-specific file in `/etc`. Please have a look at the manual of your distribution for details.

Note:The approach to starting services used by the above-mentioned distributions makes configuration of services easy for the proprietary config-tools of these distributions, but unfortunately is non-standard. I´m planning to write a generic extension for this approach some time in the future, but as I´m currently rather short on time, don´t hold your breath for this.

If you are using a different distribution: Please check whether you´ve got all config files needed by the service (and whether they are in the right directory, too). Some daemons (for example Apache, aka `httpd`) just die silently if their configuration files are not present or misconfigured.

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