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Re: X and runlevels



On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:30:06AM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
> >>>>> "EB" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> 
>     EB> perhaps because in the default configuration there is no
>     EB> display manager, and thus no automatic runage of X.
> 
> Sure. But whenever you install something that gets you a display
> manager, your system will boot up in X. To get it to boot up in

is that not what you wanted when you installed *dm ?

> console mode, you have to manually remove the symlinks in your
> runlevel's script directory. The next time you update the display
> manager, you'll have to do this again. It is not really convenient.

no there not, the symlinks are only restored if ALL of them were
removed (that is your removed the link from runlevel 0 - 6) and if you
did that why not just apt-get --purge remove *dm ?

at least that is how update-rc.d works on all 5 debian systems i work
with.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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