Ubuntu: How do you change default runlevels without inittab?

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 05:19:39 am Leo Mauler wrote:

> All I want to do is change "id:5:initdefault:" to
> "id:3:initdefault:"

Wouldn't do you any good on a debian branch system - they have runlevels, but 
everythnig except 0 (halt) and 6 (reboot) are the same.

Better approach with them is to disable the services such as the dm in the 
default runlevel.