Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Paul Bijnens wrote:

Rudi Ahlers wrote:

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Hi all

I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it?

telinit 3

This will cause the server to switch from runlevel 5 (which includes X) to runlevel 3 (which does not). _But_ a small warning here: runlevel 3 may very well differ in more ways that just lacking X. Depending on how your server is configured you may shutdown some services you wanted to keep (you may also start new ones you didn't expect).

To further investigate what you server does indeed run in runlevel 3 and 5 study relevant columns from the command: "chkconfig --list".

/Peter