Andreas Rippl wrote:
Not on a stock Debian system. Other distros (Redhat?) do this, but Debian's 2-5 are identical, leaving it up to the sysadmin to determine what the different runlevels do.if you want to disable graphical login in favour of a console one permanently, you could have a look at /etc/inittab:id:5:initdefault:Change the 5 to 2 and you go directly to the console at bootup.
There are a dozen different ways to disable the GUI login; it's been covered in this list lots of times and is in the archives. My personal fave, for a temporary disabling, is to add "exit 0" as the first executable line of the "/etc/init.d/[wxgk]dm" script(s).
-- Kent