I am a little unclear now - what isn't working? You can not worry about disabling gdm. Disabling the display manager has nothing to do with headless operation. If your default runlevel is 3, prefdm (and thus gdm) this will not be run. There is no need to comment the line out from inittab.
It's not an especially responsible to rely totally on sshd on a headless server - should the network be down, fail, or you screw it up. For example, the serial console doesn't care if you flush iptables and forget to change the default rule to allow. I personally preffer KVMs. If you must use only sshd, be sure to make sure it and your network settings are set before going headless. On 10/21/07, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau