disable X11 srevice??

Hi linux guys,

I am using redhat7.3. From /etc/xinetd.d folder, I can find other service
files like ftp, but i can not find X11 file. I want to disable X11 service,
how can I do it?

from the internet, I got some info. it seems one can use chkconfig to disable
the services he does not want to opne, but using chkconfig --list , i can
not find X11 ?

any help will be appreciated greatly!

Thank you so much in advance!!

Tony

Tony <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi linux guys,

> I am using redhat7.3. From /etc/xinetd.d folder, I can find other service
> files like ftp, but i can not find X11 file. I want to disable X11 service,
> how can I do it?

> from the internet, I got some info. it seems one can use chkconfig to disable
> the services he does not want to opne, but using chkconfig --list , i can
> not find X11 ?

Yep, take a look at /etc/inittab, and change:

id:5:initdefault:
^

To "3" to disable X11/xdm startup on reboot.

Wonder how many times this question has been answered, you can
search the archives (groups.google.com) to find an answer to some
really common question.

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Michael Heiming wrote:

> Tony <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Hi linux guys,
>
>> I am using redhat7.3. From /etc/xinetd.d folder, I can find other
>> service files like ftp, but i can not find X11 file. I want to disable
>> X11 service, how can I do it?
>
>> from the internet, I got some info. it seems one can use chkconfig to
>> disable the services he does not want to opne, but using chkconfig
>> --list , i can not find X11 ?
>
> Yep, take a look at /etc/inittab, and change:
>
> id:5:initdefault:
> ^
>
> To "3" to disable X11/xdm startup on reboot.
>
> Wonder how many times this question has been answered, you can
> search the archives (groups.google.com) to find an answer to some
> really common question.

To do it temporarily, or to shut down X after changing /etc/inittab
without rebooting, type "telinit 3" at a root command prompt.

Both of these answers assume that runlevel 3 is a non-X runlevel and
runlevel 5 is the default and an X runlevel. This is true for the OP's
Red Hat (assuming the OP hasn't changed this behavior), but it's not true
for all distributions. Old versions of SuSE used other values, but I
don't recall what they were offhand. The last I checked, Slackware used 3
and 4 rather than 3 and 5. Debian doesn't use runlevels to control X
startup; it uses SysV startup scripts.

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Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking

Hi,

I appreciated your reply, but please make sure you understand my question
first.

I use X11 on my linux box, I just want to disable the X11 service. Running
X11 and X11 service is different thing. X11 service is for remote machines.

Thanks

Tony

Tony <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi,

> I appreciated your reply, but please make sure you understand my question
> first.

> I use X11 on my linux box, I just want to disable the X11 service. Running
> X11 and X11 service is different thing. X11 service is for remote machines.

Nope, it isn't, it is one and the same if running over lo or some
NIC doesn't matter, you don't understand how X works. What you
want is disabling that the box listens to (XDMCP) broadcast
requests. Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess (RH 7.x).


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