Ubuntu Servers :: Disable Kde / X Server Autostart 10.04?
Jun 28, 2010
I installed KDE for very limited uses. However, everytime I start up, it brings me to the KDE login screen. I want to revert it back to console login. How do I go about doing that? And if possible, prevent future GUI packages from autostarting. so this seemed to work:
Code: sudo mv -f /etc/init/kdm.conf /etc/init/kdm.conf-disabled That basically renames it so it doesn't start. And if you do need to use the GUI, just run startx
I have Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome. Whenever I put in a blank CD/DVD an icon on the desktop appears named "Blank CD/DVD" and a window appears asking me what I want to do with it. How do I disable the window and the icon from the desktop?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome. Whenever I put in a blank CD/DVD an icon on the desktop appears named "Blank CD/DVD" and a window appears asking me what I want to do with it.How do I disable the window and the icon from the desktop?
I have coldfusion installed on a guest ubuntu server in virtualbox, it is configured with apache2 & everything works great. But how do i get Coldfusion to autostart when i boot up the guest ubuntuserver ?
I would like to disable the ctrl-alt-del feature for a Lucid Lynx server. i found some info on how to enable this in desktop environments, however nothing explaining how to disable it for a server.
How do I stop Lighttpd server from auto starting when I boot? I'm using it on my laptop for testing and I'd like to turn it on when I need it but not have it autostart.
How do you enable/disable the autostart of services. For example let's say I know I'm not gonna use apache and mysql for a while and don't want it to autostart anymore how do I disable it ?
And then once it is needed again how do you enable the autostart again ?
I configured succesfully openvpn server, but the service won't start at boot !I thought openvpn automatically starts al the *.conf files in the /etc/openvpn folder ?on my personal laptop the service automatically starts all the .conf files in the folder. But on my server with server.conf file it won't start at boot. I have to start the service as root
I'm usuing clean installation of Ubuntu Server 10.10 with hlds on it. I can't get startup script for my hlds server to work, so i must lauch it always "by hands"...
I have done these steps:
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Then given permission for it and added for autoload on startup
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When i lauch it as usual
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Server launches and work normally, but it never launches on startup... Just wrotes BEFOREFALL and AFTERFALL55 into /var/log/syslog and that's all... Also tried using rc.local, but it never works too... In what can be the trouble? I think i checked all possible variants already...
I have created my own server with php, mysql and pma. I want to creat users and disable ssh so they can only user their username and password to get access to /home/<username> with a ftp program.
I have a server running 8.04LTS with haproxy. This is a loadbalancer that handle port 80 connections.
However, I am seeing a lot of conntrack problems.
The default value is 65536 already. I have googled around and some says 65536 is the max value to go but some says to double the value to 131052 and so on. I did try increasing the value but the error still come.
Some says this is due to synflood and so on. I don't think it's synflood as we do connections more than 65536 with this haproxy.
Some also said to disable nf_conntrack. I have searched but there are no guide on how to disable nf_conntrack in ubuntu 8.04. Anyone can help to shed some light into this problem?
Should I increase the value to some crazy high one like 252000 (does it work?) or disable nf_conntrack?
If I disable nf_conntrack, will firewall software like CSF still work?
I've just installed the ubuntu server system on an old PC i'm going to be using as, you guessed it, a server. Because I like (some) graphical tools while configuring I also installed ubuntu-desktop on it afterwards.
The only problem is that I want to keep ubuntu-desktop, but that I don't want to boot into the (memory consuming) graphical interface by default.Does anyone know how to do that? (set the default boot to command-prompt). Also, does anyone have tips on packages I c an safely remove to clear up space and memory? (Like: openoffice, Evolution,Rhythmbox etc. are very obvious, but maybe some more hidden services and alike? Networkmanager e.g.?)
I have my headless server, and just plugged a spare monitor into it, opened up screen, ran htop on it, so I can see the system status, but the screen keeps shutting off after so long. The only way to "wake it up", is to use a local keypress (which means I have to hook a keyboard back up to it). I have already tried 'setterm -powersave off -powerdown 0', but it didn't affect it any. Is there any way to disable this powersaving mode?
for security reasons,I want to disable shutdown for normal user, but the post here does not help me. It is because when I open the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf I just saw a blank file. I use the 9.10 version.
I am trying to disable USB storage from servers.What I did is as following1> modprobe -vr usb_storage2> blacklist usb_storageIt is working fine. But root can again load the module into the kernel. [ modeprobe -v usb_storage ] want to restrict this also. My requirement is not even root can access the usb storage.
How can I disable the startup for ubuntu's desktop during booting the system?I would like to start it manually.I tried to remove the /etc/init.d/gdm file but no help.
I want to know if there is a way to disable the GUI console on 10.04 Server I want the traditional pure text console ... no plymouth, no plymouth-theme, just 80x24 console. Another question, Is there a way to get those traditional messages when booting? Like 8.04 Server does?
We have 10.x ubuntu server with XP clients. We have samba share folders at LAN. Is there any possibility that we can disable copy and paste option for some specific folders, while other data folders remain as usual in our shared data?
Whenever I do anything in Zypper, there is always a huge lag before it starts downloading a file, but then it downloads at normal speed. I think this has to do with the fact that it is now trying to download from multiple servers, and I would like to turn that off. Where do I go for that?
Just wanted to share this with anyone wanting to know.If your headless server crashes, GRUB2 (at least on Ubuntu Server) is designed to force the GRUB menu to load up next time it starts up, which means you are locked out of SSH until someone physically makes a kernel selection on the PC.To prevent this do the following change to your grub.cfg file.#nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I was looking for a solution for this for a long time and found no hel with google. Let me know if there is a better way.I aware this file will get overwritten and need reediting if the Kernel gets updated.
I'm curious if anybody can shed some light for me in this department. We're in a large environment with a Windows DHCP Server. We have been tinkering with LTSP on Edubuntu as thin and fat clients. It works great, but right now we just have 1 server handling the lab, which works fine unless we want to expand, which may be very possible.
These are the instructions I received: Login to your windows server and load the DHCP configuration screen Create a DHCP reservation for the MAC address you obtained Add the configuration options below to enable the machine to boot from the LTSP server 017 Root Path: /opt/ltsp/i386 066 Boot Server Host Name: <ip address> 067 Bootfile Name: ltsp/arch/pxelinux.0 # Specify CPU architecture in place of 'arch', for instance 'i386'
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I'm curious, what if I want to have multiple Ubuntu servers on the network that I want to have bootable? For example, let's say I have 3 labs, and 3 servers. Server A to Lab A, Server B to Lab B, and Server C to Lab C. I want all C's computers to boot to C, and B to B, A to A, etc.
1 - How would I add multiple entries on the Windows DHCP Server to allow all 3 (A B C) servers to boot?
2 - How would I be able to isolate the clients so ONLY Lab A clients boot to Server A, etc?
