On Mon, Sep 04, 2000, Anton Ivanov wrote: > It still does not answer the original question which was about X-only/ > non-X runlevel. In other words how to boot in multiuser mode selectively > with/without X. Which is quite a sensible question. > > Example: > I had to go into an intermediate single user mode boot on some of > my machines after forgetting to turn off xdm after changing video cards. > Or during dealing with laptop docking gear. > If there was a boot with X disabled and xdm installed it would have > made life a bit easier.
I must admit I don't really understand the problem here. What prevents you from going back to console mode ? Moreover, even if the X server has a problem and keeps dying, startAttempts in xdm is set to 4 by default. Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ 1024D/29499F61 1999-04-22 1155 4B19 A50F 1136 6E60 A499 7CF3 F5AF 2949 9F61 dig goret.org @zoy.org axfr \ | perl -e 'for(sort(<>)){print pack("H32",$1) if(/^c..\.(\w+)/)}' | gzip -d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]