On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Glenn Becker wrote: > > > >>> Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) > >> > >> I'd say - no. > > > > Okay! :^) > > > >> to remove: > >> #update-rc.d -f gdm remove > >> > >> to restore: > >> #update-rc.d gdm defaults > > > > I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess. > > > > G > > > > +-----------------------------------------------------+ > > Glenn Becker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > > +-----------------------------------------------------+ > > > I guess I do things a different way than everyone else. All I do on the > machines I have that have a gui installed, but I'd prefer them to not > boot to the gui, is just rename /etc/init.d/gdm to /etc/init.d/gdm.old. > Then the all the links at the different run levels don't see the gdm > startup script. Then if I was to fire up the gui all I do is type, as > root, gdm and hit enter. > > Is it an elegant solution? No. Is it easy to change if I ever decide I > want to boot into the gui? Yes. All I do is rename /etc/init.d/gdm.old > to gdm and I'm good to go. > You can also put 'exit 0' at the top of the script so that it doesn't > execute.
I use 'apt-get remove gdm'. When it is not installed, it surely will not run at startup ;-). If you do use this approach, you need to make sure that you also remove kdm, xdm, and any other ?dm. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]