On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the > command line using startx? > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > after booting up press <ctrl><alt> F1 to go into a console > > terminal. logon as root. cd /etc/rc2.d rm S??xdm # or just > > move it, if you dont want to delete it.... shutdown -r now > > worked for me this morning, anyway.
Hi, What I have been doing to stop /etc/init.d/ scripts (like xdm) from being executed at bootup is to put the line exit 0 at the top of the file (as the first uncommented line). This makes the script neatly exit without doing anything. Cheers, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Instead of loving your enemies, Harish-Chandra Research Institute | treat your friends GnuPG public key at: | a little better. http://riemann.mri.ernet.in/~raghu/ | -- Edgar W. Howe