Eddie Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:23:37 Ken Weingold wrote: >> It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I >> want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen >> on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it goes >> right back to the login screen. > >go into /etc/initab and the first line to 2 or 3 instead of 5. Do it as >root.
(/etc/inittab, by the way.) That's Red Hat and derived distributions, not Debian. Debian's default runlevel is 2, and there are no distinct definitions for any of 2, 3, 4, or 5; in other words, runlevel 5 isn't defined to be the "X" runlevel. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
