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Asked: 2010-03-06 06:00:36 +0800 CST

Disable gdmgreeter in RHEL 5?

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I would like to disable the "gdmgreeting" application that is a graphical frontend, as I only want console interfaces. This application runs on vt7 and restarts every time after I manually kill it. I have no desktop environment installed (gnome, kde), so this app just uses memory and CPU for nothing.

What can I do? I couldn't find any initscript or something like that that runs it.

The following processes are causing it to appear: /usr/bin/Xorg : 0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7

/usr/libexec/gdmgreeter

Removing the full graphical frontend is a better solution (x11?).

Thanks!

redhat graphical-user-interface gdmgreeting

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You want to change /etc/inittab and look for the line with initdefault, and change it from 5 to 3: 

     id:3:initdefault:
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