On January 31, 2004 03:36 pm, Roy Kidder wrote:
> Jerry McBride said:
> I like the idea of 7 run levels (including 0 and 6). Having recently
> "converted" from Redhat, I especially miss being able to change between
> run level 3 (regular multi-user) and run level 5 (gdm/xdm) for system
> maintenance and stuff. I often found it helpful to have the network
> started, yet log into a standard terminal when patching, etc. I haven't
> figured out how to do that in Gentoo yet.
>
> As far as managing what processes run at what run-level, I simply used
> chkconfig, which Redhat stole from somewhere. It simply managed init the
> files in the rc.x directories, much like rc-update manages files int
> Gentoo's 3 runlevels.
this is actually pretty easy:
1. edit /etc/inittab and change this:
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
to this:
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc console
2. copy all of your runlevels in default to a new one called "console" and
remove "xdm" from the console runlevel.
# cp /etc/runlevels/default cp /etc/runlevels/console
# rc-update del xdm console
3. put a file called "console" with the following contents
into /etc/X11/Sessions:
#!/bin/bash
init 3
now, when you want to switch from console to gui, just run "init 5" and if you
want to switch back to the console, logout and and choose "console" as your
login choice.
i think that's all you need. have fun ;-)
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