Re: xdm/shell login

[Jonathan Heaney <j.heaney@zetnet.co.uk>]

Dave Wiard wrote:

> i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot.  since i have xdm
> running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems.  with xdm
> running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file
> locally?
>
> Dave Wiard
> dave@acm.wwu.edu
> CS - Western Washington University
>
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One way to get it to boot to a console is to go into dir /etc/init.d and
mv xdm xdm.old

This prevents xdm from running at boot up.

If xdm ever gets updated, mv it back to being xdm, then update else it will fail.

Jonathan.