On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 12:50:47AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > no-run-xconsole > > > obey-nologin > > > allow-user-resources > > > allow-user-modmap > > > allow-user-xsession > > > allow-failsafe > > > start-xdm > > > no-xdm-start-server > > > > > > However, xdm still starts a local server. Also, if I "startx" as a user, > > > s/^start-xdm/no-start-xdm/ should keep xdm from starting. Look at > > /etc/init.d/xdm to get an idea why. The "xdm-start-server" flag is only > > used by the xbase.postinst script IIRC. > > I want xdm to run, to service remote connections -- I just don't want > a server on the console by default. I will start one with 'startx' > or 'X -query localhost' if I need one.
ok....simple... edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and comment out: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X Then xdm will start without starting a local Xserver (I could have sworn that was in the "Poor Man's XTerminal" Howto-ish Doc I am in the middle of writting...but its not in there yet...) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
