Prevent X from starting automatically

Yocal · 08-27-2003, 04:52 PM

Hello there!

Installed RedHat - and finally made my Wireless card hook up - and work

But now i would like to start up in a console only - not start X... But how?

I tried using 'telinit 3' - but im not sure that i got it right

What do i do?

// Yoc.

slakmagik · 08-27-2003, 04:53 PM

You could search the site - lots of threads. Not sure about RH, but probably edit /etc/inittab and change the line about default runlevel from 5 to 3.

trickykid · 08-27-2003, 04:54 PM

edit your /etc/inittab to start in runlevel 3 and not 5..

mentioned all the time on this site.. a search in the future might have the answer...

Yocal · 08-27-2003, 04:59 PM

Hi,

Yeah, thanks - i've read about that - but i dont have the /etc/inittab - file... Should i create it? What should it contain? Only:

/sbin/telinit 3

....or? Btw - thanks for FAST responds :P

// Yoc.

slakmagik · 08-27-2003, 05:23 PM

Um. I think you've *got* to have that or your system won't boot. Or will hang *at* boot, anyway. How are you looking for it? 'ls /etc/inittab' returns nothing?

darthtux · 08-27-2003, 05:26 PM

You definitely have to have it or it won't boot.

fancypiper · 08-27-2003, 05:31 PM

Does Red Hat still install pine? If so, try this:

pico -w /etc/inittab

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