Hello How to change the run level on a currently running system without rebooting? For the first time in my life today, I needed to change run levels on a currently running system. I edited /etc/inittab to change the default run level and then i did a kill -9 1. Needless to say this didn't help. I think if I had did a -HUP instead of a -9 that wouldn't have hurt as bad. But I am sure I saw someone change their runlevel which didn't require editing /etc/inittab. JD