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fishsponge	Posted: Feb 15 2003, 01:22 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	How do i stop X from starting up every time i reboot my machine? it's surely not as simple as removing the 'S99gdm' script from '/etc/rc3.d'.....

pfinder	Posted: Feb 15 2003, 02:35 PM
User Level: 3 Group: Members Posts: 36 Member No.: 3 Joined: 14-February 03	in a word yes that symlink tell initd (I think) to execute the thing it is porinting at with a post fix of start unintalling gdm is another option

fishsponge	Posted: Feb 15 2003, 07:15 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	thought so. is gdm just the login display manager then? otherwise, when i uninstall it, i won't be able to start x at all... right?

pfinder	Posted: Feb 15 2003, 10:01 PM
User Level: 3 Group: Members Posts: 36 Member No.: 3 Joined: 14-February 03	gdm and xdm are only used for logings you can use startx/xinit even with out gdm installed

fishsponge	Posted: Feb 15 2003, 10:28 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	ok.... i think i'll get rid of gdm then... :D cheers!!

Posted: Feb 17 2003, 03:08 PM

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QUOTE (pfinder @ Feb 15 2003, 02:35 PM)

in a word yes
that symlink tell initd (I think) to execute the thing it is porinting at with a post fix of start
unintalling gdm is another option

Even better practice is to rename the symlink to K<whatever> instead of S<whatever>

Init works roughly like this when changing runlevels

CODE

for i in /etc/rc$RUNLEVEL.d/K*
do
$i stop
done

for i in /etc/rc$RUNLEVEL.d/S*
do
$i start
done

so just deleting the S script doesn't guarantee that gdm gets stopped.

Posted: Feb 17 2003, 07:51 PM

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...just found out the official "debian" way of doing this is to take the

CODE

/usr/bin/gdm

line out of /etc/X11/default-display-manager ... in other words make it empty

fishsponge	Posted: Feb 17 2003, 08:05 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	ahha...... nice one! as soon as i get my NIC working properly (due to the hme bug in Debian for SPARC), i'll do that!! :D

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