Re: X

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i know there has to be a way to get linux to not automatically start to an X
> login because it kinda wants to know if that's what you want to do... anyhow
> for the time being one of my computers is misbehaving, all i really want to
> use it for right now is a little word processing which could be saved to
> floppy and transfered to the other computer. i'm thinking i could just use
> emacs for that... nothing special for me, essentially a "notepad or
> simpletext" is all i want... anyhow i was wondering how i would get linux to
> stop at a CLI instead of progressing on to the GUI... in the old school DOS
> 6.2 w/win3.1 i new how... simple little edit in the autoexec.bat file... but
> alas i am too unsure of myself in right this moment to tinker with this and
> that file when i do not know the expected outcome... granted it can be fun
> on other people's computers, but on mine i'm not really feeling like giving
> me this type of stuff to do (subsequent hours of troubleshooting, etc)...

If your running Redhat, you can edit /etc/inittab and change the line:

id:5:initdefault:

    to:

id:3:initdefault:

    (see the comments in the file)

In graphical mode, you should be able get to a console login prompt by
pressing  CTRL-ALT-F1  (where F1 can be F1 - F6)  --  ALT-F7 to return.

If you're looking for a simple command line text editor, try "pico".

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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