Straightforward way to shut down graphical display on Fedora 7 from command line
 

Hi Folks,

This has been killing me for some time... begginners question I know, but still.

How do you shut down the graphical display on Fedora 7 from the command line alltogether?

I mean, like in Mandriva, you just type "/etc/init.d/dm stop" and that's it.

Short of changing runlevel, I have no idea. Any help? Thanks!

as a root user type init 1 or init 3

Try as root: init 3.

Oops 2 minutes too slow with my response :)

Thanks guys, thats a solution. :)

However...

The problem is that if I switch runlevel, some services go offline until I restart them. This comes with a disruption of the service (and lost sessions, uploads, etc etc). I guess the real catch is if I can kill out graphics without changing runlevel in Fedora 7? :)

Try /etc/init.d/kdm stop or /etc/init.d/gdm stop
You'll need to be root.

Unfortunately, there's nothing remotely like that in there. See... :(

Hmmm. Fedora is different :(
Try this (as root) /sbin/service --status-all
Look throught the list and identify whatever it is that refers to X
Then /sbin/service servicename {start|stop|status|reload|restart}
eg /sbin/service dm stop
(I am guessing here!)

I've since found a not-too-elegant, but simple way to shut it down:

1) Grep for the process "/usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon"
2) When found, simply kill the process. Everything graphics related will die instantly. It's not enough to just kill Xorg, because it will be respawned immediately - but if you kill this gdm-binary, then all graphics will go away.

Well... it "works for me", but I'm long way from being sure it works for anyone else. At least problem solved.

Thanks for posting a solution.