Ubuntu dekstop is basically just that that, a desktop OS - so the designers have not made a "point and click thingie" to make it run as a server (without X).
That being said as the OP knows what a runlevel is, Ubuntu is the same as other *nixes in that the line "id:2:initdefault:" in /etc/inittab can be edited to anyone of the available runlevels. FYI ,level 1 is the only out of the box that seems not to start gdm, but of course this only runs single. My suggestion for ubuntu is to use use the "update-rc.d" script to configure the approriate services in one of the run-levels, say 4, and then set make the change to the initdefault line in /etc/inittab. I haven't played with the explict Ubuntu 6.06LTS server installation yet (so I don't know if it has nicer way than this. Martin On 6/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fedora has neat way of conserving resources by changing from init 5 to > > init 3. > > Ubuntu (breezy) comes with default runlevel 2 with GUI. How to change > > this to CLI and stop most of the inessential services - I only need to > > have database and apache servers running? What would then be an option > > to change back to GUI when required? > > It depends on whether you want this to be the new default or to just do > it for the moment. If it's a one-off I'd incline to > > sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop > sudo /etc/init.d/bigassservice stop > > and repeat til happy. This IS NOT what was asked! It may be that it is the only answer! After playing for a week, I think ubuntu is probably a good solution for someone needing a wife and 2.3 kids. IMHO it is not a good solution for people wanting to 'work' their computers. eg Q: I want to do advanced sound card making out A: Not many people have multiple sound cards ... eg this question James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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