Re: xdm

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:10:12PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:52:17PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:37:48AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > lorenzodevito@libero.it wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is a good idea disable xdm starting at boot removing K01xdm from rc1.d 
> > > > and rc6.d and removing S99xdm from rc2.d,rc3.d,rc4.d,rc5.d ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > No, the best way is apt-get remove xdm .
> > > 
> > > If you can't do that for some reason, man update-rc.d .
> > 
> >  Or, install rcconf and use it to turn off xdm.  It's a text-graphic UI
> > frontend to update-rc.d.
> 
> But it doesn't allow us to have it turn of xdm (or others) on a per runlevel
> basis, isn't it ?

 Right.  It just handles services that are the same in all runlevels.
(Somewhat confusingly, it doesn't even show services that are started in
some runlevels but not others.  IMHO, it should say something about them, so
you aren't left wondering what's going on.)

> I think you can do that with update-rc.d, at least the man page seems to say
> so.

 Yes, I think so.

 I'm not sure what your point is, exactly, but if you're implying that a
front-end should make every feature available, I have to disagree.  It does
a good job, and handles all the simple stuff.  I think it's a good design
decision to keep things simple by not trying to handle the complicated
stuff.  (OTOH, I don't think it would be a bad thing to ad support for
non-uniformity across run levels, since it could be done without cluttering
the UI or slowing down the operations that can be done with the current
program.)  Take Linuxconf as an example of a program that IMHO sucks because
it tries to do everything, and doesn't make the common stuff obvious enough.
(This was my opinion last time I tried it, which was probably over a year
ago, just for the record.)

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