how do i exit X ?

[doom]

I've tried: ctrl+alt+backspace, ctrl+alt+f2, setting runlevel to 3, and even configuring X not to load on boot. On Redhat 8
None of these worked. Can someone please tell me how to exit X!!

[Ryo-Ohki]

Mmh... Did you look into /etc/inittab ? You should be able to specify the init mode to run your distro at boot-up. The options vary from one distro to another, that's the tricky part, but they should be mentionned as comments in the script file.

[doom]

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:

should I change 'id:5:initdefault:' to 'id:4:initdefault:' to make X not load?

[Ryo-Ohki]

Assuming RedHat knows how to behave, you should actually set the line to "id:3:initdefault:".

[doom]

Thanks m8 =)
now I got fluxbox working.

[Chalnoth]

oooOOOOooo...this would be fun:
id:6:initdefault:

I wonder how long it would take to kill a computer with that setting?

Of course, it would also be fun to set the init level to 0 to piss off a friend...