text login in red hat 8.0

[badmouth]

Hi all,
how can i Make my red hat 8.0 to start in text mode? (I don't want x starts automatically).

Thanks.

[crippler909]

edit /etc/inittab

find line looking like this:
id:3:initdefault:

0 — Halt
1 — Single-user mode
2 — Not used (user-definable)
3 — Full multi-user mode
4 — Not used (user-definable)
5 — Full multi-user mode (with an X-based login screen)
6 — Reboot

make sure you are careful what you set it to, as i believe that 6 will put your sys into a steady reboot

check here
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...down-init.html

and here
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...down-sysv.html

for more info

crippler909

[genlee]

just typing "init 3" is much quicker

[Dolda2000]

The fact remains that automation is bliss, and automation is what UNIX does best, after all.

[crippler909]

ok now im not trying to start trouble here, but if he/she wanted it to start up in text mode wouldnt he have to edit the file ahead of time? or will init 3 make the change, ive never tried using "init 3" so im not sure of its effect

[genlee]

init 3 will set the defuault level to 3 until you change it to something else. You can also pass init boot levels to the kerne from grub or lilo.

[Dolda2000]

Hmmm... what are you saying, genlee? init 3 just switches to RL 3, it doesn't save it in /etc/inittab. Or maybe it's different in gentoo?

[crippler909]

so if i understand this right......

to get it to RL3 without any kinda of interaction you would have to change the file.

however if you add init 3 to your kernel boot up its the same thing

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so it would depend on your needs on which way youd want to go about it ?

[Dolda2000]

The init parameter to the kernel (and that should be init=3 in that case) in only meant for overriding the standard, which should be specified in /etc/inittab.

[genlee]

On my box, init changes the default runlevel and switches runlevels.