When you set up Mandrake, you can select to use X start up automatically. How do you select not to do that?

You can set your runlevel to 3 and not 5.

How do you change your runlevel?

I believe in Mandrake it should be your inet or inetd file I think, and you should find a line in there to change your runlevel from 5 to 3 or whatever you want it to be.
If I am wrong on this, someone let me know, haven't used Mandrake in a long time, but think this should be the correct file to do it. It is where I know for sure that all your services you have at startup are at, or configured at.

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Could also be the inittab file, this is your startup script file read form the rc3.d, but some systems are different and I can't think right now for some reason. It would help to be in front of a Linux box.

[Edited by trickykid on 05-11-2001 at 04:49 PM]

it is the initab file. inet.conf (or whatever it is called) is for starting network services when they are needed (such as apache).

initab, the first line should have something in it saying default runlevel then a number after it. it's that number you have to change

Alex