Hie guys
im new to Unix. Need some advise or favour perhaps. Iam running Red hat Linux 7.2 and as soon as i install with GUI and so done, i reboot the system. After i reboot it directly went to the GUI login. I able to login and do my stuffs. My question is how to hold the system not to directly go to GUI login and instead of it i can use the system without X. I want it to be temprorary use. I dunt want it to become permanent without GUI. I done before last time but forgot it (Start Linux without X by pressing some keys). Any idea?

Second question.
How to set motd for my users? I use root and i edit the file /etc/motd. as soon as done and i change the permission no motd comes up durring boot any idea ? Does it needs no X GUI to start motd ?

Appreciate all the Unix gurus help. Do help this small Unix learner a bit

Thank you.

If you want to start without loading X, edit /etc/inittab and change the default run-level to 2. Alternately you can get to a plain console login prompt by pushing Ctrl-Alt-F1 from within X.

The MOTD is traditionally displayed after you enter your username and password, not during boot. If you would like to have a mesage displayed above the "login" prompt at the console, edit /etc/issue.

Hie PxT thanx for your help. really appreciate the X console part. It worked . But for the MOTD part im still confused. Let say as soon as my system booted i try to enter my username and password in. It just goes to the main desktop without displaying the motd. Even after i edit the file /etc/issue as u suggested. any idea. Appreciate this help too.

Keywords were "at the console". The MOTD will not be displayed when you login to X. It will usually be displayed when you open an xterm. If you want a message to display when you login to X, you will need to put something in the .xinitrc to pop-up a message.

You can try xmotd

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/xmotd/

Its a pop-up motd running on X as soon as you login your account. Do read the software readme file first for supporting hardware and Etc.