Jeremy wrote:
> Jean-Francois Theroux wrote:
>> What about modifying /etc/inittab to set the default runlevel to 3?
>  From my understanding, this is the default runlevel in ubuntu.
> 
> I knew perfectly how to do this, did it all the time, just they totally 
> changed stuff now and did not seem to document it... kinda like grub2 at 
> first.
> 
> I'll figure it out eventually, this is all part of maintaining the 
> magician mystique in linux, you must learn the arcane art of 
> manipulating runlevels again. Make it hard, make it obscure, the more 
> different and opaque the better. If it was easy, everyone would be using it!
> 
> Jeremy
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If you want to do it the 'hard' way, install Ubuntu-server 9.10 into a 
VM and try to find how it manages to load a console instead of gdm.

btw, Thank you Jeremy... you made me realize that I thought I understood 
Upstart... Searching for your what-seems-to-be-obvious answer made me 
realize that I didn't understand Upstart.

David Montminy
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