Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:13:52, Darac Marjal wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote:
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels
>> > from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way
>> > I can achieve this?
>>
>> Out of the box, this is true, but it is considered acceptable for system
>> maintainers to alter the runlevels.
>>
>> First of all, you need to determine which Display Manager you're using
>> to start graphical mode. Usually this will be gdm or gdm3, but might be
>> kdm, xdm or something else. Find the init-script for that service
>> (/etc/init.d/gdm3, for example). At the top of the script you will find
>> a comment:
>>
>> # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
>>
>> Change this to read:
>>
>> # Default-Start: 2 4 5
>>
>> Next up, find the link to that script in /etc/rc3.d (it will be SXXgdm3
>> for example, were XX is a number). Delete that symlink.
>
> This will work, but it is not the recommended way. As far as I know,
> under Sys V, the canonical method to disable a service in a specific
> runlevel is to rename the S link to a K link (plus some juggling with
> sequence numbers, which is obsolete with insserv). There is no need to
> edit init scripts.
>
> I rather recommend sysv-rc-conf (but there are other tools like it) or
> even update-rc.d (there are examples in the man page).
You can use "/etc/insserv/overrides" to override the LSB defaults.
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