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I have just managed to congigure my Red Hat 9 box as a gateway/firewall/dhcp/samba server. As it is doing all this stuff, and is a fairly old machine i just want to leave it running without a GUI loaded. Is it possible to drop out of Gnome to a pure CLI while still staying logged in? I have had a google and a search through the forum but can't find any mention of a command to do this.
edit /etc/initab and change the default runlevel to 3. This will bring you to a prompt when you login, now you are are at a console. startx will start x, logging out will take you back to the console, still logged in.
Think i must have changed the wrong thing in initab as when i tried to reboot it just stoped before loading the services and checking for hardware and said something about a runlevel 9???
On the grub splash screen, with your kernel selected press e, and add a space and '3' to the kernel parameter, this way it will ignore inittab and boot into runlevel 3, then you can fix inittab.
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