Gnome help

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:33 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Gnome help
> 
> Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > I want X to start on my servers, so I can bring up the GUI stuff at
> times.
> >
> >
> >
> > But I want the console to come up text only.  So if for some reason,
X
> > pukes, the server will still boot.
> >
> >
> >
> > How do I manually (through a file) change the gnome startup to not
bring
> > up the GUI login, and just bring up the text login, like init 3
would?
> 
> You have to tell the machine to boot to run level 3 instead of 5.
Then,
> if you want X, you do a "startx".
> 
> Edit /etc/inittab and change the line:
> 
> 	id:5:initdefault:
> 
> to
> 
> 	id:3:initdefault:
> 
> There is no way to prevent the GUI login if you boot to run level 5 as
> all of the default window managers (gdm, kdm, xdm) first put up a
login
> screen.  The only way around it is to either set up autologin or log
in,
> "startx", then choose a window manager from there.

So, is there a way I can get it to serve up XDMCP without having to run
startx or init 5?

I've experienced (at least Redhat, probably others) machines not booting
before if X gets screwed up and can't boot to the graphical display.  I
just want to avoid that without loosing the ability to use XDMCP.