Re: Stopping xdm...

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Jesus Duran <durajes@charlie.cns.iit.edu> writes:

> i need help in the key sequence used for stopping xdm from starting up at
> boot up.

To do it permanently, edit /etc/X11/config and change "start-xdm" to
"no-start-xdm".

My solution for when I need to do this occasionally, was to:

# cd /etc/rc4.d
# rm S99xdm

Then I can type "linux 4" at the LILO prompt to have everything
starting normally except xdm.

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