Help in Damn Small Linux.......

[East]

hi all
I am running my system with DSL. I ahve chanegd the default run level with 5. I changed it to 2 to enter into CLI. After restarting the system, still system enters into GUI. I am not able to save the changes.
Can anyone help?

[MikeTbob]

How did you change the run level? You must edit these files as root, or they won't save.

[oz]

As pointed out by MikeTbob, you need to su to root first:

su

nano /etc/inittab

Also, you might try changing it to runlevel one.

Let us know if it doesn't work.

[Jonathan183]

I think you should be able to add the desired runlevel to the boot parameters for the kernel. Add 2 to boot to runlevel 2 etc in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file, which you need to edit as root user.

[i92guboj]

The default runlevel is set into /etc/inittab (someone suggest fstab above, fstab has NOTHING to do with runlevels, it is about mount points and filesystems).

In inittab you'll find something like this:

# Default runlevel.
id:3:initdefault:

Change it to whatever you like.

You can also use the Jonathan183's advise: just add a single '2' to the kernel line in your grub.conf or menu.lst file. The settings in the kernel line takes precedence. That basically means that you can clone the whole section in your grub.conf, change the tittle and put a different runlevel for each entry. That way, you can use grub at bootup to decide if you are going to boot on command line or you preffer to login on a graphical environment for this session.

[oz]

The default runlevel is set into /etc/inittab (someone suggest fstab above, fstab has NOTHING to do with runlevels, it is about mount points and filesystems).

Oops... thanks for catching that for me! That's what I get for being in too big a hurry again.

Try it this way, East:

su

nano /etc/inittab

I'd still try runlevel 1, if 2 nor 3 works the way you want.

[East]

In DSL,how to know the number of user already created and where is all the informations are maintained?

[i92guboj]

In DSL,how to know the number of user already created and where is all the informations are maintained?

In /etc/passwd, just like in any other distro. Each line on that files is a different user.

You can read this:

man 5 passwd

To understand the structure of the file (really simple). Everything is there, only the passwords are moved into /etc/shadow.

[andrias]

1. is dsl always run on root when runlevel change to text mode ?
2. what kind runlevel dsl run on text mode ?
3. when change to runlevel text mode, how to make startx always run such run level 5 ?

[Jonathan183]

You should find this link and this link useful.