single user mode? (or how to shut down X?)

[Matt Morgan]

On Apr 7, 2005 4:06 PM, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
<kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com> wrote:
> How do I shut down the X-server and go to command line mode (single user) ?

You can do the latter without doing the former, by hitting
Ctrl-Alt-F1, or Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc. through Ctrl-Alt-F6. These are your
text-based virtual consoles. Hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the X
session.

To really boot into single-user mode, the easiest way is to edit your
grub kernel command and add

single

to the end of the command. This is the line that starts something like

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ...

You can do that interactively during grub boot, or you can edit
/boot/grub/grub.conf and reboot. Doing it interactively makes it
easier to recover from typos.