Cool, thanks for the reply. I have not heard of Webmin, but I will look into it. Thanks again for the help.
Duke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] to startx or not to startx, that is the question On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:02:22 -0400, "Duke Glover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hello Linux gods, > > Being rather new to the Linux world I have what is probably an easy > question... > > I am about to install 8.2. The machine on which I am going to install this > upon will be used Primarily as a server. Because of this my instinct would > be to install as little as possible and perform admin functions via command > line only. To ease the burden of typing (I type slow) I would like to > install 8.2 so that it boots to command line only mode, but if I would like > I can easily start the gui whenever the needs arises to perform said admin > functions. Of course once I am finished I would like to kill the gui and > return to command line only. I am positive that this is possible. My > question is this: > > Lets say I am running command line only in Alt-F1 and do an Alt-F2 and fire > up the gui there. Once I logout and return to command line only will that > actually get rid of all the processes needed to keep the gui alive. In > other words, I do not want to sacrifice server performance just so I can > have the usefulness of a gui. So once I exit the gui will there be any > background processes that continue to run ? Or, will there be anything left > running that would not be there if I had never installed it with a gui in > the first place. hah, now I am starting to confuse myself. :) If you start X from the command line (e.g. via a command like startx), you should be fine: once you log out all X-related processes are terminated. An alternative is not to use X at all on the server, but to manage it from another machine using Webmin. This is included in Mandrake, and it allows you to manage the server remotely via a web browser. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "HTML needs a rant tag." -- Eric S. Raymond
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