On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Kent West wrote: westk >As a general rule, if I want to temporarily de-activate westk >something like xdm, I just rename the link to "no.S99xdm" westk >instead of removing/recreating-later. Being relatively new westk >to Linux/Unix, is there anything "wrong" (bad habit, westk >non-standard, etc) with this practice?
if it works i dont think its bad. BUT by renaming the link the program would still run (unless theres something in init that doesnt run files that start with "no" i dont know) renaming the script itself in /etc/init.d would work for sure though. thre have been posts saying to use the command update-rc.d (something) maybe update-rc.d remove xdm i forget (man update-rc.d ?) old habbits die very very hard for me though :> nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:49am up 172 days, 21:02, 1 user, load average: 1.11, 1.08, 1.08