Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm running debian 2.0, and thinking about upgrading to 2.1. > > Hmm, you should probably go for 2.2 now, if you can ...
Well, first things first - upgrade 2.0 to 2.2 isn't supported! > >I want to shut down X, so that I can do some upgrading of X-related > >stuff, without sawing off the branch I'm standing on, so to speak. > > > >I was advised to try 'init 3', but this does nothing. > > You've been talking to Red Hat users :) Debian has a different runlevel > architecture, so there's no non-X runlevel. > > Try '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' to shut down the X Display Manager. I wasn't > around at the time of Debian 2.0, so if /etc/init.d/xdm didn't exist > then look through /etc/init.d and see if there's anything similar. > > Alternatively, you could always just Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in there; even > if X dies it won't matter, as you won't be depending on it. Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to define a new (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X (say 7) and then 'init 7' whenever I feel like shutting down X? Does this sound possible, and if so, how do I find out how to do it? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller
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