Re: Where to set default runlevel

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

I strongly disagree.  I think that is a Very Bad Idea (tm).  All you
are doing is breaking a part of inittab, which, I would think, would
generate copious amounts of error messages in /var/log/messages.  Just
change initdefault.

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:53:29PM +0200, Martin Sieben wrote:
> Modify /etc/inittab and remove X starting.
> 
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> # xdm is now a separate service
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> Something like that. It's the easiest way, I think.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martin Sieben
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> 
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Mark W. Knecht wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >    I have a development machine running RH 7.0 that came configured to start
> > up X (runlevel=5) at boot, but I'd like it to only go to a console.
> > (runlevel=3)
> >
> >    I'm looking around at /etc/rc* type files but can't find the place to set
> > this. Can someone point me to the right file?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark

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