On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:00:32PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:<snip>
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm startup from all levels.
# update-rc.d -f xdm remove
After you get back the monitor,
# update-rc.d xdm defaults
Neither of these are the right answer. (a) will cause the /etc/rc?.d links to be put back into place if the package gets upgraded; (b) will put the links back, but at the wrong priority, so xdm would get started before things like cron. Not a huge deal, but it's probably easier to leave one runlevel (say, 5) in the "pristine" state; delete /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm if you don't want xdm to start, and then use 'ln -s' to make a link identical to what's in /etc/rc5.d if you want to bring it back.
I have written a bash script to remove/restore any file entry
in '/etc/init.d',
including ALL links and save them
to '/etc/init.d/SAVE/' as <file>.tar.gz.
If there's a startup script I want to temporarily disable, I just put the line "exit 0" as the first executable line in the script. Easy to do; easy to undo.
-- Kent
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