[plug] boot into shell

[Mark B]

and this is why linux sucks, everyone is making their own distros with
different standards.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Steicke" <r.steicke at bom.gov.au>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] boot into shell


> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:50:12PM +0800, Caleb Duggan wrote:
> > It now enters runlevel 3.....but still brings up the GUI....any ideas
why?
>
> Ubuntu is derived from debian, so probably starts the display manager
> from an init script, not from inittab.  You should change the default
> runlevel back to 2, since some other things may expect this, then do
> one of these
>
>   update-rc.d -f gdm remove
>
> or
>
>   rm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm
>
>
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:07:02 +0800, Mark B <mark at tophits.com.au> wrote:
> > >i'd presume it'd be standard between all distributions, try editing
> > >/etc/inittab and change the runlevel to 3, insted of 5.
>
> This is common in Red Hat and similar distributions, but not standard
> by any means.
>
>
>
> --
> Russell Steicke
>
> -- Fortune says:
> We should start referring to processes which run in the background by
their
> correct technical name... paenguins.
> -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the penguin Linux logo
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