Re: turning off xdm?

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
> 
> I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was
> greeted with a graphical login. 
> 
> How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and then starting X if
> and only if I want to start X?  All of the runlevels except 1 seem to
> have xdm. Should I just pick a runlevel and delete the xdm in the
> corresponding rc.x directory?

The default runlevel is "2".  So you can:

$ rm /etc/rc2.d/S??xdm
  (if you have a different default set, adjust accordingly)

or to remove xdm completely

$ apt-get remove xdm 

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>