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On Sunday 18 April 2010 18:50:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:04:37 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > That's what I do. I have /etc/runlevels/no-x/ which contains all |
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> > the services I want started if I boot a CLI-only system. It's |
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> > sometimes handy to have all the virtual consoles available, so |
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> > single mode doesn't help here. |
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> That's whay I used to do until I found the gentoo=nox option, it |
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> saves maintaining an extra runlevel. |
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But X isn't the only thing I don't run when not running X, if you see |
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what I mean. Only about 3 other things differ at the moment, but I leave |
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the possibilities open. |
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And I don't have to type anything at the grub command prompt. |
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And maintaining the other run level is not arduous anyway, as changes |
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occur only when I install or remove a system service. Rarely, in other |
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words. |
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To each his own, of course, as ever. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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