Mahalo everyone for the helpful suggestions. But I'm still not clear on what area of expertise I should be polishing here - init, X, bios? Headless servers are probably more standard than headly ones, is it really so simple that no one has bothered to write a specific howto? I must be missing something big.
> Turn off gdm, xdm or kdm service Hmm, they're not really services, are they? At least, don't show up in /etc/rc.d or chkconfig --list. Could it be this entry in /etc/inittab? grep dm /etc/inittab # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon Yeah, apparently so: ps -ef|grep -e 2654 -e 2638 root 2638 1 0 00:19 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon root 2654 2638 0 00:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 2730 2654 0 00:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon So I just comment out that line in inittab (to prevent gdm-binary from getting started)? Then, since I am rather lazy, I am hoping sshd will come up and I won't really have to struggle with the serial port stuff. At least, not right away. Dave _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau