On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Peter L. Arnoldy wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Well, you can run the shutdown command from
> > the xterm, nothing wrong with that.
> >
> > AFIK, <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Backspace> will get rid
> > or X, I'm not sure if it'll kill the xdm.
> >
> > Or, if you're feeling lucky, kill the xdm and
> > the xserver ( I'm not sure how to do that, I
> > don't use xdm ) from xterm after ps.
> >
> > To kill the X server, cat your ~/.xinitrc,
> > and look for the last entry in the file.
> > ( By last entry I mean the last line to a
> > program, ignore the comments, etc. )
> > Once that program is killed, X will close,
> > and you will be back to the prompt. ( Again,
> > I'm not sure of xdm, you'll have to kill it
> > first, I think )
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Nikita.
> I tried ctlaltbckspace, which just got me back to the login
> screen (don't want that, want just non-xwindows, linux prompt)
> So, then I logged in as root and from a shell, did
> /sbin/shutdown, which shutdown (actually, froze the xwindows
> display, so I did hardware reset, at boot though it automatically
> went right back into xwindows. How do I stop it from doing
> this?
>
>
> Thanks
> -Peter
>
Just look into /etc/inittab more carefully: which runlevel is default and
whether xdm is started there. The second place to look into is probably
/etc/rc.d/rc.local, but I'm afraid you are the only who could insert xdm
into this file. If you did not do so, xdm should not be there.
Good luck in your struggle ... :-)
Alexei
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