On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:34 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Tim: > >> Oops! I neglected to mention that I use ctrl-alt-functionkey to switch > >> (then c-a-F7 to switch back). > > > > Which isn't stopping X, just ignoring it for the while. X is still > > running, even though you don't see it. > > Then perhaps I'm confusing something here. In rl=5, top lists 'Xorg' - > which I took to be X windows. It was consistently at .3 - .7% of cpu > usage. In rl=3, it wasn't listed in top. So, am I confused? > > I'm just looking to have every cpu cycle availible for the cruncher > client while I'm not using the machine. > please see: man init Some of the differences between run level 3 and run level 5 would be what is started/stopped in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and what is started in /etc/inittab. There could be other differences if any scripts executed by the init task check the RUNLEVEL variable. I would suggest doing ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d > /root/rc3.d.log ls /etc/rc5.d/rc5.d > /root/rc5.d.log diff /root/rc3.d.log /root/rc5.d.log to see what scripts are run in one level which are not in the other. If something is in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d that you want in rc3.d, either manually create a symbolic link in /etc/rc3.d similar to what is found in /etc/rc5.d, or better and hopefully, if the script is recognized by chkkconfig, use chkconfig to have chkconfig create/remove the symbolic link. Please see: man chkconfig I would suggest looking at /etc/inittab to see what is different between run level 3 and run level 5. Please see: man inittab I would not suggest editing /etc/inittab, commenting out the # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon It would lead to confusion later should you ever wish to automatically start X, because, like me, you will forget you made this change. ;) Long ago, I booted up in run level 3, logged into a command line, and used the command, startx, to start X. I haven't done that since I moved to FC5, and now FC6. I assume that would still work. Please see: man startx -- Rick Sewill tel:+1-218-287-1075 mailto:rsewill@xxxxxxxxxxxx 1028 7th St. N. mailto:rsewill@xxxxxxxxx Moorhead, MN 56560-1568 ymsgr:rsewill sip:628497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx U. S. A. tel:+1-701-866-0266 xmpp:rsewill@xxxxxxxxxx
