inittab question

[Peter (Ubuntu List)]

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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