On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Derrik Pates wrote: > Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: > >>Just avoid installing GDM/KDM/XDM. > > > > Or boot into runlevel 2. 'man inittab' again. :^) > > Um, unless you explicitly use update-rc.d to change the runlevels that > GDM/XDM/KDM/whatever is started and stopped in, it's started by default > in all multi-user runlevels on Debian (that's 2, 3, 4 and 5). Only Red > Hat (and SuSE, and Mandrake, and other RH-derived distros) follow in > that tradition - and that's because they actually run the display > manager through an inittab entry.
That's correct. Of course, you realize that this is one thing on which Debian is not standards-compliant? :) -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
