Hello,
When I boot into linux (I have a dual boot system) the XDM is automatically started. What file or files do I need to modify in order to disable this? Is there a linux equivalent to DOS's autoexec.bat?
How you disable xdm during boot/init varies a bit by distribution. But there are only 2 usual ways it gets started:
1. In /etc/inittab, some runlevels will start xdm (typically runlevel 5). If your distro does it this way, then look for a line like this one in /etc/inittab:
# The default runlevel.
id:6:initdefault:
and change it to read (probably)
# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:(This is the more common way of starting xdm.)
2. /etc/inittab will always start *some* init script (this is as close to autoexec.bat as you will get with Linux), and that script in turn customarily runs a bunch of other init scripts, each of which sets up some piece of the OS or starts some background process. Locations vary, but one example of where they are is
/etc/init.d for the actual scripts
/etc/rc2.d for symlinks to the ones run at runlevel 2
(there will be a corresponding /etc/rc?.d for
each runlevel, including an /etc/rcS.d for
single-user mode)
Look in the directory for the default runlevel for a symlink with a name something like "S99xdm". To stop xdm from starting during boot/init, remove this symlink.
(This is the less common method of starting xdm, but the one I am more familiar with, since Debian does it this way.)
I've simplified the description of the boot/init process quite a bit in the above (I've lonly mentioned single-user mode in passing, for example), but not in ways that are relevant to the question aout xdm.
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