Turning of graphical interface
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Oct 15 20:07:15 UTC 2004
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:04:45PM -0700, Mike Noble wrote:
> I know that some were between init 3 and init 5 the graphical interface
> is started or shutdown. What I need is to turn off gdm so that you
> login to a text only interface. Can anybody tell me were this is
> controlled from.
You're on the right track. Runlevel 5 starts gdm by default, and runlevel 3
doesn't. So you want to boot to runlevel 3. Edit /etc/inittab and change
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
and there you go.
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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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