2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>: > Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command You probably mean "telinit 3" and "telinit 5". But we are talking to a veteran of FreeBSD so he probably knows such stuff already, shouldn't he? Cheers, --Amos