[sllug-members]: How do I make gNewSenes headless!?

[Nathan Lane]

Okay so I found the stuff for runlevel 3, which is what I changed to, and
here's a listing, but I don't see X or KDE here:

nathanl at nathanl-desktop:/etc/rc3.d$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2007-12-19 08:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 102 root root 4096 2007-12-19 08:54 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S05vbesave ->
../init.d/vbesave
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S10acpid -> ../init.d/acpid
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 2007-12-11 02:49 S10sysklogd ->
../init.d/sysklogd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S11klogd -> ../init.d/klogd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-11 02:49 S14ppp -> ../init.d/ppp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S18hplip -> ../init.d/hplip
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   16 2007-12-11 02:49 S19cupsys -> ../init.d/cupsys
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2007-12-11 02:49 S20apmd -> ../init.d/apmd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2007-12-11 02:49 S20dbus -> ../init.d/dbus
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   22 2007-12-11 02:49 S20hotkey-setup ->
../init.d/hotkey-setup
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 2007-12-11 02:49 S20laptop-mode ->
../init.d/laptop-mode
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S20makedev ->
../init.d/makedev
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   24 2007-12-11 02:49 S20nethack-common ->
../init.d/nethack-common
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 2007-12-11 02:49 S20powernowd ->
../init.d/powernowd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S20rsync -> ../init.d/rsync
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-19 08:32 S20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 2007-12-11 02:49 S25bluez-utils ->
../init.d/bluez-utils
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S25mdadm -> ../init.d/mdadm
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S89anacron ->
../init.d/anacron
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-11 02:49 S89atd -> ../init.d/atd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2007-12-11 02:49 S89cron -> ../init.d/cron
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-19 08:34 S91apache2 ->
../init.d/apache2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S98usplash ->
../init.d/usplash
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   22 2007-12-11 02:49 S99acpi-support ->
../init.d/acpi-support
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-11 02:49 S99kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 2007-12-11 02:49 S99rc.local ->
../init.d/rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 2007-12-11 02:49 S99rmnologin ->
../init.d/rmnologin


On Dec 19, 2007 4:01 PM, Nathan Lane <nathamberlane at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay Richard Stallman in a recent blog post said that he uses gNewSense
> headless and uses Gnome every so often, and like him I want to keep KDE,
> just start up without X running - and I changed my default runmode to 3,
> which according to all of the articles I've read, is a headless runmode with
> network access - is this not correct?
>
> Nathan
>
> On Dec 19, 2007 3:40 PM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nathan Lane wrote:
> > > How do I make gNewSense headless? I don't want KDE to run
> > automatically
> > > anymore and surprisingly, my inittab default was not 5, but 2 for the
> > > runmode..so unless everything is screwed up in this distro.. anyway I
> > was
> > > thinking that maybe somebody has another idea as to how to make
> > gNewSense
> > > headless.  Any ideas?
> >
> > You'll need to remove all the packages by hand, if X is already
> > installed.  That may be somewhat of a pain, so it may be better to just
> > reinstall, this time, not adding X.  Doing aptitude searches may be the
> > best approach for that.
> >
> > Further, runlevel 2 through 5 are all the same on a debian-based distro,
> > which includes gNewSense.  X or no X, your default runlevel should be 2.
> >
> >  If X is installed, it will launch it, otherwise it won't.
> >
> > --
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> Nathan Lane




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