On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:47 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
id:3:initdefault:
then the system will boot up to command line mode (NOT GUI mode) and
it'll behave like 90% of the servers out there, but you have the ability
to go to full GUI mode when you want by doing:
telinit 5
as the root user.
Or as a normal user -
startx
Then you don't have to switch run levels - which you probably don't want
to do on a server (except to switch to run level 1 for maintenance, but
that usually done rarely and only in emergency - and often done by
rebooting the machine into run level 1)
When you use startx - logging out of your desktop/window manager returns
you to the cli.