The command that you want is:
just to view
or to edit

Mr Eddy1, thanks for your input. Unfortunately, i just get "Command Not Found" when I use this: cat /etc/inittab or nano /etc/inittab

Steven

Those commands are supposed to be run as root or you can use sudo

"How should I be loading this inside of Terminal window? Thank you!"

You don't have to be root to look at /etc/initab. Open /etc/initab in a text editor.


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Steve Stites

If you want to see the /etc/inittab file run this in your termianl.
If you want to change the runlevel wait for our Guru to tell you how to edit that.

Gentlemen, in searching other areas of this forum, I found the following remarks that may explain why I keep getting the "Command Not Found" response.

"Ubuntu no longer uses init as the script for starting the systems, they have replaced it with an event driven system called upstart. So inittab which was the configuration file for init is no longer needed. As for runlevels, that was a concept used by init, so it's not really relevant anymore for Ubuntu."

If Zorin is closely related to Ubuntu, maybe there's another command that I can use?

Steven

Zorin is based on Debian and Ubuntu.

The only command line utility that I am aware of (elevated privileges as "root") for Ubuntu is "sudo"
Debian uses "su"

If you want to know for certain what Zorin OS was built on you can run this command and it will appear in the output what distribution Zorin is really based on.

What command plus the argument, are you running that is returning 'command not found'?

Yeah, above post is a good place to start. Find out what Ubuntu version is going on.

Then I would do a

Hit enter

then do a a

just enter and copy and paste back what is in there in code tags in next post.

To be double sure to post all info. I would post also what is in Zorins /etc/sudoers text file also.

type in password at the prompt and hit enter key.

Post back sudoers file contents to show what has access to what like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin,......

This is a weird thread for rebooting when it should shut down . Sounds almost like a corrupted Iso download and install and bugs are showing up using that kind of reasoning.

Edit: the only other reason I can think of for a reboot issue is a bad bios setting maybe? The reason I mention this is a computer I dug out of the trash pile had a bios setting that would boot after a certain amount of down time after being turned off.

Gentlemen, I apologize if I got us off track. What I'm hoping to do here is to review (and correct, if necessary) the inittab table.

When I enter: sudocat /etc/inittab, I get the following: sudocat: command not found.

If I enter sudo cat /etc/inittab, I get the following: cat: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory.

If I enter cat /etc/inittab I get the following: cat: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory.

Any suggestions? Thank you.

There is no inittab file in Ubuntu and since Zorin is a mofification of Ubuntu, I would suggest you look for the file indicated below and change the line below in this file. Replacing N with the number you want. You can google to see what the different runlevels are:

You can edit /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf
and change the following line:

env DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=N

Mr Yancek, after changing this code, how do I update and save it?

Thank you.

Steven

I'm not sure what default text editor Zorin uses. You could try: sudo gedit /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf
You will be prompted for your user password, enter it and hit the Enter key and make the change then click on the Save tab at the top and reboot.

I have installed Zorin 6 and Zorin 8, (all versions of 8) without any problems on three different computers, and older IBM Thinkpad, a newer HP, and a Dell Optiplex 740. On the laptop I replaced Windows XP. On the others, I did a dual boot with Windows 7 on the HP, and Windows Vista on the Dell. The two running desktop computers had Windows installed first. After that, I simply did a boot up with the Zorin DVD, and chose the install along side the Windows system. After the installation, a menu comes up with both systems listed and I simply pick the one I want. Windows for some games, and Zorin for everything else. I hope it works out for you.