Cool. Thanks. gabriel said: > 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 ;-) > > -- > too long have the workers of the world waited for some moses to lead them > out > of bondage. i would not lead you out if i could; for if you could be led > out, you could be led back again. i would have you make up your minds > there > is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves. > - eugene debs > founder of the american railway union > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
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