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

[Aaron Toponce]

Nathan Lane 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?

No, it's not correct. Runlevel 3 is exactly the same as runlevel 2 which
is the same as runlevel 4 which is the same as runlevel 5 in gNewSense,
Debian and all the Ubuntu flavors.  Check the man page on init for
further explanation.

If you're running a Red Hat based system, or a system that knows how to
properly handle runlevels, then traditionally, it would be as follows:

Red Hat:
0: shutdown
1: single-user
2: multi-user & no networking
3: multi-user with networking
4: N/A
5: multi-user with networking and X
6: reboot

Debian:
0: shutdown
1: single-user
2-5: multi-user with networking and X
6: reboot

However, you can adjust your K and S scripts in the appropriate
/etc/rc?.d/ directory.  If you want runlevel 2 to not start X, then you
need to adjust the appropriate S-script to a K-script for X in
/etc/rc2.d/.  Which on my Debian system is S99gdm.  Rename it to K01gdm
and you're set.

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