well, he's got a reason. i had to do something similar to this when i updated linuxconf, it installed itself into the bootscripts and forced some sort of gui login process, i wanted to come in initially with just textmode, so i had to eradicate linuxconf, there is nothing to be afraid of when editing inittab stuff, just make sure you *think* about the changes you made before you commit them "Richard H. Pistole" wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Michael Rice wrote: > > > The best way to get out of xdm depends on how it was started. > > > > If you typed 'xdm' at a root shell, you can just 'killall xdm' > > > > If, however, you use the /etc/inittab method, init will just re-spawn xdm > > for you -- you need to tell it not to. > > > > Edit /etc/inittab and comment out the line on which xdm is referenced, > > then kill -HUP your init process (usually 1). > > > > This will tell init to reread the file, and it should shut down xdm for > > you. > > Or you could run 'init 3' from a root shell, which is probably safer > than modifying your inittab for no reason... ;) > > RHP > -- > Richard H. Pistole - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Warning: File .signature has modification time in the future. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products." -- Bruce Perens, on Open Source software. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
