On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:04:45PM -0700, Mike Noble wrote: > I know that some were between init 3 and init 5 the graphical interface > is started or shutdown. What I need is to turn off gdm so that you > login to a text only interface. Can anybody tell me were this is > controlled from. You're on the right track. Runlevel 5 starts gdm by default, and runlevel 3 doesn't. So you want to boot to runlevel 3. Edit /etc/inittab and change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: and there you go. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
