on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:01:28PM -0700, Eric G. Miller ([email protected]) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > > > > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was > > > greeted with a graphical login. > > > > > > How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and then starting X if > > > and only if I want to start X? All of the runlevels except 1 seem to > > > have xdm. Should I just pick a runlevel and delete the xdm in the > > > corresponding rc.x directory? > > > > As root do: > > # update-rc.d -f remove xdm > > The problem with that approach is it removes all of the symlinks for > xdm. While that sounds nice, the next time the xdm package gets an > update, you will be surprised when all of the links have reappeared. > > Now, if you follow that by adding something like: > > (cd /etc/rc2.d ; ln -s ../init.d/xdm K99xdm) > > the you'll have at least one Kill link, and an update/upgrade won't > reset all of the symlinks to their defaults. > > But there's not much point in keeping xdm around if one doesn't plan to > use it...
For varying definitions of "use", there may well be.
As I point out in my "X Display Manager Repair & Removel Pre-Shrunk
Ultra-Mini HOWTO", it's possible to run an X display manager just for
managing remote connections. This would allow running [xgkw]dm in one
or more runlevels, but only providing console logins at box itself.
This is configured in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html
...and, links, links, we gots yer links!
http://void.box.sk/tutes.html ;-)
Cheers.
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