The K Desktop Environment

The KSysV Handbook

Version 0.04.00
Last updated: 16/12/1998

Peter Putzer

putzer@kde.org

This Handbook describes the System V Init Editor, KSysV Version 0.4.0


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. A Brief Description of System V Init
1.1.1. Why All These Runlevels ?
2. Onscreen Fundamentals
2.1. Mouse
2.2. Keyboard
2.3. The Menu Entries
2.3.1. File
2.3.2. Edit
2.3.3. Options
2.3.4. Help
3. Configuration
3.1. Recognized Sections
3.1.1. [Path Settings]
3.1.2. [Colors]
3.1.3. [Geometry]
3.1.4. [Other Settings]
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"
4.1.2. Q2: "My machine "halts" just after booting"
4.1.3. Q3: "I scheduled some services to be run in runlevel X using KSysV, but they arenīt"
4.2. Standard Semantics of Runlevels
4.2.1. Red Hat
5. License
6. Credits
6.1. Developers
6.2. Authors