inittab

[BIS]

Hallo All,

I am getting pretty confused here so hopefully somebody can help me ...

I would like, when I boot, not to startx. This is a debian system. Every time I boot I get the graphical login prompt (where by the way I cannot log in as root). How do I stop this and only boot to the comman line? I believe it is something to do with the inittab, but google and man pages just get me more confused. This is the current line that I believe needs modifying in inittab:

id:3:initdefault:

but from here on I am lost. Can somebody point me in the right direction?

 

[BIS]

OK, I realized that as run level 3 was now default, it could perhaps help to rename the S99gdm to something like OLS_S99gdm in /etc/rc3.d - this solved it.
Next question: Is there a cleaner way to do this?

 

[RhythmAce]

At the bottom of inittab you should see this:

x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

This says to run xdm in runlevel 5. If there is a three there, that may be part of the problem.

 

[unixfreak]

You should have changed

id:3:initdefault:

to

id:2:initdefault:

Cheers

 

[flugh]

Been a while since I did Debian on the desktop. But I do remember someone in irc.debian.org:#debian saying "starting GUI in runlevels is a redhatism. debian doesn't do that" when I asked the same question.

Last I tried, the 'debian' way to do it was 'update-rc.d gdm remove' or similar. Check out the 'update-rc.d --help'.

Again, it's been a while. That was from back when debian 2.0 (slink i think) release was a big ol' party in #debian

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JBR

 

[BIS]

Thanks everyone.