change of runlevel 5 to runlevel 3 in FreeBSD 6.1
Malcolm Kay
malcolm.kay at internode.on.net
Wed Feb 14 06:56:20 UTC 2007
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:35 pm, DeadMan Xia .... wrote:
> Dear Friends ,,
>
> Well i m facing some problem reagrding System Boot in FreeBSD
> 6.1, I have installed GNOME2 and when my system reboots its
> start in X Windows. Now i want to change Run Level 5 to Run
> level 3. Can anybody help me out ?
Run level 3, 5; I think your in the wrong OS.
>
> I have tried these changes in /etc/ttys for ttyv8 in both way
> make ttyv8 comment or uncomment but in vain.
>
> ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> # Virtual terminals
> ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
> #ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
This is just one of the ways of starting a X windows login.
The usual turn-off is to change the "on" to "off" rather than
commenting the line.
But if you are running gnome you probably have
gdm_enable="YES"
in rc.conf. Change it to "NO"
Malcolm
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