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Does anyone know what files to modify to configure the system to not load X windows at startup? It needs to run console only. The last time I messed with something similar XWindows was disabled by default... and I modified it to run on startup :) I forget where everything is.
Eric
Isn't it as simple as changing the runlevel in /etc/inittab, i.e from 5 to 3?
Tim
It could be :) I'll try that on my test vmware server I'm installing before I do it on the real one though! X has been competing for resources with their SQL database. I need to keep it from running.Quote:
Originally posted by tyanni
Isn't it as simple as changing the runlevel in /etc/inittab, i.e from 5 to 3?
Tim
Eric
Yeah, like he said, it's the line in inittab that looks something like:
id:5:initdefault:
Change the 5 to a 3 and you'll start on console at next reboot.
Then from console type "init 3" and the system will stop running in X-windows mode.
-Bash
It worked. I changed it and just rebooted.Quote:
Originally posted by Bash
Yeah, like he said, it's the line in inittab that looks something like:
id:5:initdefault:
Change the 5 to a 3 and you'll start on console at next reboot.
Then from console type "init 3" and the system will stop running in X-windows mode.
-Bash
Eric
It would have been nice to know that this is a SysV linux box, otherwise the instructions would have been useless.
Is it really necessary to sound so condescending? Yes, I assumed that is was a SysV linux box, but in general, thats a safe assumption. Not to mention that I asked if it was that simple, and gave him ample opportunity to say it wasn't linux.
Tim
I didn't mean to sound condescending, so my apologies. I still think, though, that it would have been easier to know without assumptions. You know what they say about people who assume things and I don't like to do that. Whether it be BSD, linux, Unix, Windows, whatever. . .if you don't state what you're using how are the rest of us to know?
Telepathy! ;)Quote:
Originally posted by sourdaisy
if you don't state what you're using how are the rest of us to know?
Seriously, though, this is true. I actually skipped this thread because I didn't feel like asking what was being used, waiting, coming back and trying to help. More information in the first place can surely increase your chances of a solid response/solution.