Thanks Eric! John <div>On 6/12/06, Eric Harrison <<a href="mailto:eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us">eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, john wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running FC 4 as a webserver, and don't need gdm to be running for day > to day use ( I might need to start it if I log on at the console). > Is it safe to turn off GDM-Binary. Google tells me that GDM binary is a > "wrapper" for a variety of GDM functions. I assume that it can safely be > shut off, but I wanted to check with the experts first. > > Thanks! > > John If you are running a web server that typically does not need to be accessed via a GUI directly on the desktop (or via XDM or VNC), then it makes sense to run in text-only mode. To do that, you can change from runlevel 5 (GUI) to runlevel 3 (text) by editing /etc/inittab and changing: id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: You can run "telinit q" from the command line or reboot for the change to take effect. Afterwards, if you do find that you need to a GUI from the console you can log in and type "startx" to startup the GUI. If you find that you really do want the GUI login, then just reverse the process. Change the default runlevel back to 5 and run "telinit q". -Eric _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>