Re: runlevel

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: runlevel
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 08:52, Steve Smith wrote:
> Michael Sammartano wrote:
> > Cool, thanks for the tip!
> > I will give vsftpd a whirl! Everything else works nicely now, shouldn't
> > be to hard to set up FTP. I also just rebooted my server, and the
> > background graphics went away, I now have full screen terminal! I feel
> > bad leaving all the beauty out, but I am after performance....
> > Mike
>
> Mike,
>
> I apologise if you already know this, but Just In Case:
>
> If you get to missing X too much, you can run it just for your session
> at runlevel 3. Type 'startx' at the commandline. When you logout from
> the gui it'll drop you back to your text console.

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actually, there are some text based browsers that work pretty well -
depending upon what you need to do. Text based browsers include lynx and
elinks (links). Also, wget is an incredibly powerful tool. I use these
tools a lot on servers that I don't want to install or run X on.

Sometimes, less is more.

Craig

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