[CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.comWed Jul 23 08:35:14 UTC 2008
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Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Paul Bijnens wrote: > >> Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >>> 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Thanx, I did notice it, but since this is a Xen server, with everything running on the domU VM, I need very little running on the main server as it is. So I have disabled a lot of unnecessary services as well. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff
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