On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:20:47PM -0500, Larry Irwin wrote: > > I change all our Debian servers (~200 of 'em) to start up in character > mode... > That way only those who know what they are doing can navigate... > Edit /etc/inittab, change "id:5:initdefault:" to "id:2:initdefault:", save > the file and reboot. > If, at some point, you want to run the desktop you can do so by entering > "init 5" at the command prompt. > Enjoy! - Larry > By default, run levels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are the same for Debian, so you must be doing some additional customization.
Also, why even have a desktop environment installed on a server? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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