On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:48:24PM +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote: > [snip] > > > > > Isn't ctrl-alt-F[1-6] good enough to get into console mode? In what > > circumstances whould you not want X to start up on boot if you had > > installed a *dm? > > > > In the circumstance when you are serving a flock of dumb clients > from a single machine. NCD Xterms for example. In this case you *NEED* a *dm > running with network access turned on but the machine itself may not even > have > a video. > This setup is a small percentage of the installed base but it does > exist and is used.
except this configuration has nothing to do with the runlevel links. you have to alter the configuration file for xdm or whatever to not manage a local X server, but you still need the daemon started at boot, by yes a initscript. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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