On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:22:50PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g. > kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from > /etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and things like that > will just restore them. I'd prefer not to uninstall the package entirely, > because then I'll lose the task- package that gave it to me in the first > place.
If you leave at least one of the kill "k" links in place the package manager won't mess with /etc/rc*d. Take a look at the man-page for "update-rc.d" if you don't know about it already. Last time I used it I just removed the start links, iirc. There is a "-n" switch which allows you to play with it until you're sure what you want to do. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke