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by damfman

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Without having to reinstall, how do you prevent the graphical interface from starting automatically at boot time on Redhat 8? On some unix versions there is simply a line in a config file to edit...is there one in this case? (i.e. I only want the text login prompt to appear upon reboot) Thanks;

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by cpfeiffe

You can have the command line login and still hav ethe GUI, but that doesn't seem like what you want. It sounds like you want to shut the GUI down all together. You have two easy options for that. You can edit /etc/inittab and change the default run level to 3 (instead of 5). This is identified by the second field of the line that begins with id. This is probably best because if you ever want the GUI again you can boot with init 5 instead of the default boot. Another option is to simply comment out the line that starts with x:5 (should be the last line of the file). Once you are in on the command line you can always launch the GUI with xstartup. Good luck.

by damfman

Thanks for the info!!! I thought I had rated this answer already, but something must have went wrong...sorry for the delay...

by damfman

Thanks for the info!!! I thought I had rated this answer already, but something must have went wrong...sorry for the delay...

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