on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:20:47AM +0530, N. Raghavendra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > > does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the > > command line using startx? > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > after booting up press <ctrl><alt> F1 to go into a console > > > terminal. logon as root. cd /etc/rc2.d rm S??xdm # or just > > > move it, if you dont want to delete it.... shutdown -r now > > > worked for me this morning, anyway. > > Hi, > > What I have been doing to stop /etc/init.d/ scripts (like xdm) > from being executed at bootup is to put the line > exit 0 > at the top of the file (as the first uncommented line). This > makes the script neatly exit without doing anything.
I've been known to do this, but I prefer to add an echo to indicate that
this is the case. Scripts which silently fail can be annoying. E.g.:
echo "Not starting foo"; exit 0
Cheers.
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