Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Glenn Becker wrote: > >>> Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) >> >> I'd say - no. > > Okay! :^) > >> to remove: >> #update-rc.d -f gdm remove >> >> to restore: >> #update-rc.d gdm defaults > > I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess. > > G > > +-----------------------------------------------------+ > Glenn Becker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > +-----------------------------------------------------+ > I guess I do things a different way than everyone else. All I do on the machines I have that have a gui installed, but I'd prefer them to not boot to the gui, is just rename /etc/init.d/gdm to /etc/init.d/gdm.old. Then the all the links at the different run levels don't see the gdm startup script. Then if I was to fire up the gui all I do is type, as root, gdm and hit enter.
Is it an elegant solution? No. Is it easy to change if I ever decide I want to boot into the gui? Yes. All I do is rename /etc/init.d/gdm.old to gdm and I'm good to go. You can also put 'exit 0' at the top of the script so that it doesn't execute.
