Does headless X require runlevel 5?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Sat Jun 10 19:20:43 UTC 2006


Le samedi 10 juin 2006 à 14:56 -0400, Janina Sajka a écrit :

> > You can run any UNIX/Linux system 'headless", without a GUI on the console.
> > 
> Yes, I thought so. Glad for the confirmation.
> 
> > Modify /etc/inittab, change the 5 to 3:
> > 
> > id:5:initdefault:
> > 
> > id:3:initdefault:
> > 
> > This will change the default boot run-level for future boots.
> > 
> > As root, you can use the command:
> > 
> > # init 3

You should also probably remove the ctrl+alt+del trap in that case.
I've seen servers running on init 5 only to avoid spurious reboots when
the guy trying to log in the windoze box nearby makes a KVM mistake.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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