*- On 6 Aug, David Wright wrote about "Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting" > Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> *- On 6 Aug, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote about "Re: stop bringing up X >> window when Linux booting" >> >> dpkg --purge xdm >> >> >> >> works for my 2.1 system. Then you must kill -9 pid_for_xdm. >> > >> > Hmmm... I was thinking of a workaround that *may* work fine... what if you >> > just remove the >> > ¨xdm¨ script from the /etc/init.d folder (and the links in the /etc/rc.# >> > folders, also)? >> > This should do the trick *without* the need to completely remove xdm form >> > you system (you >> > may want it back someday) AND without bringing up any problem with broken >> > dependencies... >> > >> >> Just remove the links in /etc/rc*.d with the correct Debian >> tools/method of, >> >> update-rc.d xdm remove >> >> If you remove the actuall script you might cause problems when you >> actually remove the package and it tries to look for the missing script. > > This should not work because update-rc.d remove does nothing > unless you've already removed the script itself. > > I believe the "Right Way" is just to unset the > executable permission for /etc/init.d/xdm . > > Cheers, >
Oops. You need to use the -f option to force the removal of the links when the script is still in place. update-rc.d -f xdm remove This is one of the correct ways. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------