On Tuesday 11 January 2011 23:40:55 Mark Knecht wrote: > I found the nox keyword searching in Google but couldn't figure out how > to use it correctly. It does exactly what I was looking for.
I define a separate run-level for no-x*, which doesn't contain xdm and also omits various other things that are only needed when running an X session (lm_sensors, vboxdrv, alsasound, ...). Then I put a separate entry into grub.conf for it and select it at boot time. It doesn't get used very often, but when I need it nothing else will do. Very handy for, e.g., major upgrades of KDE, when I'd rather not carry on running old-KDE and risk starting a program thoughtlessly that might be either old-KDE or new-KDE. Single-user mode won't do for this because I want the range of VTs to be available to do work in. * like this: # mkdir /etc/runlevels/no-x # rc-update add <package> no-x -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
