Didn't quite understand the runmode

[R4NG3R]

Awhile back i asked how to get RedHat just to run in a different mode. Runmode 5 being the GUI correct? Well i never found out where to edit the runmode. I just want to run it in the terminal without the GUI hoping the preformance level would up a little. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
R4NG3R - The n00bish Linux user who hates reading.

[PostCode]

You want to edit the /etc/inittab file with root privilages.

#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.  
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

Take a look at the following line. This is where you set the runlevel at bootup:

id:5:initdefault:

Change the number to the desired runlevel. In your case, 3. Reboot.


Hope this helps.

[R4NG3R]

ah sweet thanks dude. But where can is this file in the

/ect

directory?

or is there a file in

/ect/inittab

directory with a file in it?
(That may sound confusing.)

[PostCode]

The file is inittab and is located in the /etc/ directory.

[R4NG3R]

hey btw, what do i do if i want to get out of runmode 3?

do i do what this says:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...runlevels.html

using GRUB?

[ceh383]

You can type "startx" (no quotes) at the command prompt to start the GUI......

[R4NG3R]

ok coo, thx