Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, eric k. wolven wrote: > Dennis: > > Try commenting out xdm on its init level...rc2, if I'm not mistaken... Uninstalling xdm also seems to work. A happy new year, Kerstin -- Dr. Kerstin Hoef-Emden Gyrhofstr. 15 Universität zu Köln

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:37:52PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: | >To understand _why_ this stops gdm from starting on boot read up on | >how SysV init works. | | OK, I browsed man sys(8) init. | That did help a little. | Perhaps that plus other reading and more time | will help more... Here's

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread Dennis Krinke,,,
Thanks to all that responded. dman wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:35:26PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: | I would like to change configuration | so that I boot into a console, | rather than to X-windows graphical login. | | I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from | id:5:initdefault:

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:35:26PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: | I would like to change configuration | so that I boot into a console, | rather than to X-windows graphical login. | | I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from | id:5:initdefault: to | id:2:initdefault: | but this did not do

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.29 17:52 eric k. wolven wrote: Dennis: Try commenting out xdm on its init level...rc2, if I'm not mistaken... I put 'exit 0' on the line after the #!/bin/sh in the xdm startup script, and just to be safe, I also removed its startup links using 'update-rc.d' -- Andrew

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread eric k. wolven
Dennis: Try commenting out xdm on its init level...rc2, if I'm not mistaken... Eric Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: I would like to change configuration so that I boot into a console, rather than to X-windows graphical login. I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from id:5:initdefault: to id:2:ini

How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread Dennis Krinke,,,
I would like to change configuration so that I boot into a console, rather than to X-windows graphical login. I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from id:5:initdefault: to id:2:initdefault: but this did not do it... TIA Dennis Krinke __