On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:53:30PM -0700, Marc Stergionis wrote: > Two questions now that I've upgraded. > > Debian always goes to a graphic login. I've tried changing > /etc/inittab to runlevel 3, 4 and 5 but have never gotten a text > login. How do I?
Suppose you use gdm as graphical greater (similar options apply to kdm or xdm or whatever). Then it is enough to erase : /etc/rc3.d/S99gdm to have runlevel 3 not start the graphical login. For more info : /etc/init.d/ contains the launching script of a serie of services/daemons/whatever, among them is gdm (or kdm, or xdm) which launches/stops the graphical greater. Each runlevel has a directory like /etc/rc3.d, in which symbolic links to the scripts in /etc/init.d are found, with an order in which they should be launched/stopped. So erasing (or adding) a symlink in one of the rc3.d directory will customize said runlevel. There are also other more advanced ways of handling this, but i am not familiar with them, maybe somone other can provide you info about it, or you could search the various available packages for some providing this kind of services. But anyway, the above mentioned way should be enough for your purpose. Friendly, Sven Luther
