On Wed, 26 May 1999, Bruce Sass wrote: > You can also use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to shut down X
Not with xdm, it just restarts. > When you are back at a text console: > "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" will stop xdm As root only. Personally, i've had trouble with this, it always claims xdm isn't running. kill `cat /var/run/xdm-pid` works though. > "rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm" will remove the link that causes xdm to start up > (assumes your default runlevel is still "2") There's a better way in Debian. # update-rc.d -f xdm remove That will handle all the rc?.d directories. If you later want to put it back in, the proper command would be: # update-rc.d xdm defaults 99 01 The 99 is the startup sequence code (makes it start last), 01 is the kill sequence code (makes it be (one of) the first killed).
