Re: turning off xdm?

["Kevin C. Smith" <smithkevinc@nettaxi.com>]

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?

As root do:
# update-rc.d -f remove xdm

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