[ILUG] GUI login

[Liam Bedford]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:40:59AM +0000, John McDonnell came forth with:
> 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.
hmm... then SuSE and debian are broken...
RedHat plowing their own furrow again? (can't remember the Slackware
settings)..
> 
> However, it is possible to use linuxconf on a redhat system to do this if
> you're not comfortable with editing the /etc/inittab.
ooh... use linuxconf and watch it fubar the rest of your machine, log into
the collective, and invite the Borg in for tea... (oh, did I say that..
silly me... LinuxConf is good... </subliminal>)
> 
> The line you're looking for in inittab is:
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> just change the 5 to a 3.
> not that hard really.
nope.. and as other people mentioned, to get a temporary change from lilo
you can do 
<image name> <runlevel>
so you can do:
linux 3
to go to level 3.
You can also do
linux init=/bin/sh 
if you fubar everything, and then
mount -o remount,rw / /
mount /usr

so that you can get editors happy etc...

L.
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