exiting from X 11 and /etc/inittab

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Oct 15 07:33:25 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 14:59, John Que wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have Fedora Core 2 ; when I perform login I enter the X11 screen.
> 
> Now,I want to change it so that on next login I will start witout X11 ,
> in terminal mode.
> 
> I had changed , in /etc/inittab,
> the line:
> id:5:initdefault:
> to
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> and pressed alt/ctrl/right arrow ; the screen refreshed itself , but again
> to  X windows
> Previously I had worked on RH9 ;
> When I did such a change and pressed alt/ctrl/right arrow,
> it did the job, and the screen refreshed itself to terminal mode.

# telinit 3

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Ow Mun Heng
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