inittab question
Peter (Ubuntu List)
ubuntu at ourvirtualhome.com
Wed Aug 29 21:22:28 UTC 2007
Christopher Gray wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I don't seem to have a file called inittab anywhere on my hard disk. Can
> somebody point me toward documentation on how Ubuntu does things like set the
> run level? I began looking around for this to see how to boot Ubuntu without
> running Gnome automatically.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Chris
>
Feisty uses upstart and not init anymore. You can see the settings in
/etc/event.s
The following was written by Peter Garret a couple of months ago on this
list:
"On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, X runs in runlevel 2 , and
there is no distinction between this and running without X.
There are several ways to make the system boot to a tty prompt without
starting X. The most direct way is to edit the file
/etc/X11/default-display-manager
and comment out the "/usr/sbin/gdm" or equivalent "kdm" line . Substitute
"false" without quotes. You could also simply clobber it with
echo "false" | sudo tee /etc/X11/default-display-manager
Alternatively, if you are sure you will never need gdm/kdm , you can
uninstall either or both.
"
Good luck
--
Peter van der Does
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IRC: Ganseki on irc.freenode.net
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