Re: Where to set default runlevel

[Martin Sieben <martins aia tartu ee>]

Are you sure? Go and try. It works fine and there is no error messages
flood. Of course, you have to restart inittab after editing it.

Testing was sucessfully done on custom RedHat 7.0 installation. Installed
in March, 2001

If you want, I can give you screenshot in priv mail

Martin

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Bob McClure Jr wrote:

> 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
> > Server and network security
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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
>
> Cheers,
>

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