Disable Xserver startup of Red Hat Entreprise 4

[Rui Vilao]

Greetings,

I am quite new to Linux...

I want to permanently disable the Xserver on my RHEL 4.0 box.
What is the easiest way to do this without having to change the default run-level?

Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated.

TIA.

Kind Regards,

Rui Vilao.

[Ivan Ferreira]

The easiest way is to change the default run level, why do you want to stay in run level 5?

[Rui Vilao]

Hi Ivan,

I am not sure if the only difference between run level 5 and 3 is the Xserver startup...

Note: On HP-UX I used to rename S990dtlogin.rc to s990dtlogin.rc and that was it!

TIA,

Rui.

[Ivan Ferreira]

If you want to know the difference check at the SXX scripts in:

/etc/rc.d/rc3.d
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d

The SXX files in rc3.d start services in run level 3. The same for rc5.d. If you compare these directories, you will see that by default there are no differences, so you can safely start in runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. Also, the inittab starts the prefdm service in level 5
, so you cannot control the startup by runlevels.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Rui,

vi /etc/inittab

Change the run level to 3.

boot.

That does it.

SEP

[Stuart Browne]

Just looking at my system, and it doesn't look like any of the services differ between 3 & 5.

You can double-check your system by looking at the output of 'chkconfig --list'.

[Ivan Ferreira]

They don't defer, the X is started by prefdm in inittab.

[Rui Vilao]

Hi all,

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
What about commenting-out prefdm in inittab?

Could this solve my issue?

TIA,

Kin Regards,

Rui.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Yes, commenting that in inittab will prevent the startup of X at runlevel 5.

[Rui Vilao]

Hi,

I have commented-out prefdm in inittab.
Now the server hangs when starting the HAL daemon.

It looks like there is some dependency with Xserver.

TIA,

Rui.