Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2324 mails)

[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 November 2009 14.27:11, Bob Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to recycle an old machine as a headless server alongside my main
> desktop machine. The two machines will be linked through my ADSL router. I
> have done a standard openSUSE + KDE4.1 install on it, but now need to get
> it able to run in headless mode.
>
> I have set the BIOS to 'Halt on none', so hopefully it will boot without
> mouse, keyboard or monitor.
>
> I now need to set it to boot into runlevel 3, as there is no need for a
> GUI, but I am not sure which file(s) need editing.
>
> My user was set to 'Automatic login' at installation.
>
> Hopefully, I will then be able to ssh into my user, having put my
> id_dsa.pub key into ~/.ssh and into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> I'd be very grateful for any advice or a pointer to a How-To document.
>
> TIA
>
> Bob

Hi Bob,

Maybe I didn't understand something, but if you don't need a graphical GUI 
then you don't need to install KDE or anything alike, I (personal opinion) 
would even recommend not to install it at all (or now deinstall it). Then 
your runlevel "problem" will not even appear.

Don't know if it's necessary to set the BIOS to 'Halt on none'. Mi PC just 
gives some beeps at start-up (that says: I have no keyboard) but then starts 
anyway...

Also I guess there's no need to log-in to a user after booting up. Just leave 
it at the system prompt. Thru ssh you can then always log-in to any user (or 
root). 

Again: my opinion, might be wrong... - but I have set up a server here (SuSE 
9.0) without keyboard, mouse, monitor. I start it pushing the power button 
and shut it down after logging in as root via ssh.

regards

Daniel

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