In a message dated 4/30/99 4:46:11 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Since I installed X on my slink dist, xdm starts automaticly when I boot my 
> computer. Normally, this is no problem, but in some circumstances I would 
> like to quit X (ie to rebuild the kernel).
>  
>  My question is:
>  
>  How do I kill xdm, or prevent xdm from starting at boot-time (so I can 
start 
> X with the startx command)?
>  

To stop xdm, execute:
        /etc/init.d/xdm stop

There are numerous ways to prevent xdm from starting - but I'd rather not 
name them here (again) as they are surely in the mail archives.

-Jay

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