Hi, On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: > I've actually gotten far enough with Debian that I have Gnome up and > running, and have gotten to play the squash-bill-gates game, thanks to > ya'll. > > However, when I booted Linux this morning, my nice text login was gone, > and instead a graphical login was presented. This is nice and all, but > most of the time I would prefer to do my work in good ole' text mode and > only go into Gnome when I want to. What setting do I change?
su (or sudo, etc.) to root: 'update-rc.d -n -f xdm remove' to test what it will do... 'update-rc.d -f xdm remove' to do it... man update-rc.d (will control scripts run in runlevels) very handy debian tool... > > Also, the chair in front of the Linux machine is uncomfortable, and > sometimes I would prefer to work at my usual machine instead. I think I > need to load a 'telenetd' package to use telnet to connect remotely, > correct? Is it correct that I use the dselect program to download and > configure it? I did start it up, but I'm very worried that it will try to > update all sorts of stuff which I just spend a whole day configuring, and > perhaps break my X stuff again etc. (You see I'm used Microsoft stuff, > which tends to muck itself up just terribly everytime you let it check > itself for new hardware.) So my question is, if I just go in there and > mark 'telenetd', will it only download stuff that I ask for, and possibly > some dependent packages? For many, dselect has fallen out of favor, at least compared to using apt-get, dpkg, etc. (maybe also console-apt, etc., but I haven't yet used such). You might want to look into familiarizing yourself with apt-get and dpkg... you probably should (as root, sudo, etc.): 'apt-get install -s telnetd' (-s flag will _s_imulate the apt-get installation and allow you to observe what would happen) then, if satisfied: 'apt-get install telnetd' would put it on your system I'm not exactly sure what you want this program for, but you seem to want to use telnet as a client in which case you'd want 'telnet' package, rather than 'telnetd'; the 'd' at the end of telnet lets you know it's a daemon, in other words, it's installing a telnet server for you to allow others to telnet to your machine. The real question is: why are you looking to use telnet, rather than 'ssh' (secure shell), which will ensure that your password can't be sniffed, which can be very common with telnet. See openssh.com, part of the openbsd project, and: 'apt-get install ssh' Hope this has been helpful and take care, Daniel > > Kevin Stokes > Pie in the Sky Software > www.pieskysoft.com > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
