Stopping X from telnet?

[hosford]

does anyone know how I can turn off graphical boot by editing system files or how to stop X from a telnet session? :mad:

[klamath]

To boot into console mode by default, edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to '2'.

To stop X from the console, you'd probably need to kill the process.

[Malakin]

The correct runlevel for redhat/mandrake is 3 for just a shell and 5 for X. It's not the same for every distro, the inittrc file itself is usually commented so you know which one does what.