Incoming from Colin Watson: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:37:24AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > 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? :) > > That's what you get when people invent standards after the fact based on > only one tradition ...
Shooosh! Microsoft might be listening. :-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -
