Even though I've never done it, I think you could remove all the symlinks in the /etc/rc*.d dirs except for /etc/rc6.d and then it wouldn't restore them on an upgrade, and the rc6.d is for shutdown. So it shouldn't do anything wrong leaving that one there. They can be removed with 'update-rc.d -f xdm remove', for example. But that removes them all, and as you said they would be restored on an upgrade.
HTH, Jimmy Richards A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too. --Jake Johansen 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. > > -- > Geoffrey M. Romer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" > -Salvor Hardin > "I can't leave you alone with this man! He might be a tenor!" > -Fred Astaire > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]