Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't > > have any sort of large income to spend on books. > > > > I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows correctly. When I am > > at the log-in screen, I am pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then > > Ctrl+Alt+Delete. This cleanly unmounts everything, but I was wondering if > > their was an easier way. [snip] > So you're at the login prompt of X (xdm), personaly I don't like X to > start immediately when I boot, you can prevent this from heppening by just > renaming the xdm file in /etc/init.d/xdm to something else (renaming is > done using mv). [snip]
It's your system and you can do whatever you want, but there's a better way (the Debian Way (TM)) for handling files in /etc/rc?.d and /etc/init.d man update-rc.d To do what you're suggesting, stop xdm from starting at boot, you'd simply do: update-rc.d -f remove xdm Gary
