[wplug] Newbie question on graphical login

[Henry Umansky]

There is no advantage or disadvantage except ascetics and system resources. 
If you want to get rid of graphical login, edit the file /etc/inittab. 
Look for a line like this:

id:5:initdefault:

and replace it with this

id:3:initdefault:

This should make you start your machine at run level 3 which is multi-user, 
network, but no X OS.

-Henry

--On Monday, November 11, 2002 9:21 AM -0500 Mark Haney 
<haney01 at email.franklin.edu> wrote:r

> Hi all,
>
> Most questions I have seen on graphical login are related to how to get
> it to work. Well, I can't seem to get it to go away!
>
> I installed Debian 3.0, and when the tasksel screen came up I chose only
> the 'X Window System' and 'Dialup System' tasks. The install worked,but
> when I booted into the system, up came the graphical logon screen (xdm).
> I thought I could get rid of it by 'apt-get remove xdm'. Nope. It went
> away yesterday, but when I booted the system today, the graphical login
> screen popped up again!
>
> So, my questions are:
> 1) Is there any advantage to the graphical login? I would rather login to
> the command line, and use 'startx' if I want to use X. I know I can get a
> command line using the virtual terminals, but this is an old machine, and
> I don't want x running and sucking up resources.
>
> 2) How can I make Debian boot into the command line? (I'm currently also
> researching this on my own... it must have something to do with the init
> scripts and run levels, but at my newbie stage I haven't been able to
> find and fix it yet.)
>
>
> TIA,
> Mark
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Systems/Programmer III
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