Wasn't it Guest, Ken who, on Tue, 21 Nov 2000, said:
> It's also assuming that Fergal is using a Redhat box
nope... no assumption. check the original message again and you will see
the line:
using RH 6
> if it's a SuSE one then he'd want to change from going into run level
> 3 to going into run level 2.
putting graphical on 3 and text on 2 is frankly broken.
However, it is possible to use linuxconf on a redhat system to do this if
you're not comfortable with editing the /etc/inittab.
The line you're looking for in inittab is:
id:5:initdefault:
just change the 5 to a 3.
not that hard really.
johnmc.
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