Re: [LUG] X shutdown

[Simon Waters <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk>]

Alex Charrett wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Paul Weaver wrote:
> 
> > You can also try, from lilo, "linux init=3", which should stop you
> > from going into x.
> 
> linux 3 will do the same thing too ;)

Hey "init 3" at a root prompt - who wants to reboot just to stop X.

I usually only drop to 4 - it stops samba and a few bits on my box - 3
may stop more - YMMV.

You could edit /etc/inittab, init q, and then kill X.....

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