aphro wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > =?ISO- >hello everybody: > =?ISO- > > =?ISO- >i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i > found my debian run > =?ISO- >xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i change it? when use > redhat,edit the file > =?ISO- >/etc/initab, and set init 3 to default will be ok, but debian is > quite different. > > since i doubt a mail would get through from the address you have there > i'll just post to the list .. > > there may be a better way of doing this but the simple way is to: > > rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm > > then if you want it on again: > > cd /etc/rc2.d > ln -s ../init.d/S99xdm > > nate
As a general rule, if I want to temporarily de-activate something like xdm, I just rename the link to "no.S99xdm" instead of removing/recreating-later. Being relatively new to Linux/Unix, is there anything "wrong" (bad habit, non-standard, etc) with this practice?
