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do I have GUI installed on server?

How do I know whether I have a GUI installed on the server or not?
I suspect not as I only have SSH access but I want to check in case it's using up memory.

ps aux |grep gdm (or kdm or xdm and/or xorg)

I guess you should just do ps aux and look through for things that look gui-like.

If you know what distro, you could use the package manager to list the files installed and see if an xserver is installed.

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Originally Posted by pljvaldez (Post 3638504)

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# ps aux |grep gdm

root    19549  0.0  0.1  4116  620 pts/0    SN+  00:23  0:00 grep gdm

[root@localhost ~]# ps aux |grep kdm

root    19565  0.0  0.1  4120  624 pts/0    SN+  00:24  0:00 grep kdm

[root@localhost ~]# ps aux |grep xdm

root    19567  0.0  0.1  4120  620 pts/0    SN+  00:24  0:00 grep xdm

[root@localhost ~]# ps aux |grep xorg

root    19571  0.0  0.1  4116  624 pts/0    SN+  00:24  0:00 grep xorg

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# locate xserver

/usr/lib/xserver

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpxl/xserver.py

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpxl/xserver.pyc

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpxl/xserver.pyo

/usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy

/usr/share/doc/nss_ldap-253/pam.d/xserver

/usr/share/doc/selinux-policy-2.4.6/html/services_xserver.html

[root@localhost ~]#

Wouldn't worry too much. Like any other sw, if you're not using it (ie actually pointing/clicking), 99% of it will be flushed from mem, just leaving a stub so the kernel can respond to any activation.
Try running top to see.

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Originally Posted by chrism01 (Post 3638527)

what should I be looking for?
Is grep the GUI?
How would I actually be able to access the GUI remotely anyway?

One way to check is to look at /etc/inittab. There's a line in there with the word initdefault, which means startup init level (man init or telinit).

3 = cli mode
5 = Xserver (GUI) mode

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...x_Boot_Process

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Originally Posted by chrism01 (Post 3638532)

Unless it's Debian based in which all the runlevels (2-5) are the same. You have to customize them yourself.

You're better off browsing through the entire ps aux output and google for things if you don't know what they are.