On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:02:29 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 01:20:56 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
>
>
> > <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > /etc/rc.d/(init.d/)?dm and make it non-executable, or maybe there's a link
> > > to it in rc3.d . If you find out its filename ("foo" for
> > > /etc/rc.d/(init.d/)foo), then you can try "chkconfig --del foo".
> > >
> > > You can always get to a console login even if X starts; ctrl-alt-F[1-6],
> > > but that probably isn't sufficient. :-)
> >
> > In RH it is a level 5 respawn that I always commented out. I do recall that was
> > somewhere else on SuSA.
> >
> > If I can just figure out where it is and comment it out. I like to log
> > in at the cmd
> > line and then do a startx if I need the gui.
>
> On my laptop (SuSE 9.1), /etc/inittab has
>
> id:5:initdefault
>
> Is yours different? Change that 5 to a 3 and Robert's your father's
> brother.
That killed it! you are truelly a gentilman and a scholar. I have got so
used to the RH stuff and I have only changed that once, I had to reload
the system, as something happened when I tried to format a CF card, and
the whole thing went south. Anyhow I will note that somewhere for future
reference.
In the RH inittab it was a tty respawn that did it. All you did was comment it
out and that stopped it.
When I power my notebook up I like it to come up to a cmd promt that way if
I have stepped away and someone comes up on it, to most people it looks so
alien that they just press on, whereas if it has a GUI screen they may stop and
try to log in. Also when the login comes up I will log right in
without thinking and
a lot of times I may want to do cmd line stuff, or just leave it at that state.
-- Chuck Hast To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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