Re: stopping x from starting automatically
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:07:51PM -0500, Joe Block wrote:
> You can do it that way, but it isn't the proper way. It's generally a
> bad idea to mess with files in /etc/init.d because they may be needed in
> more than one runlevel.
>
> Leave the files in /etc/init.d alone, and go into /etc/rc2.d and remove
> the S**xdm file, which is really a link to /etc/init.d/xdm
>
> Then you can go into /etc/rc3.d and do 'ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm S99xdm'
>
> Once you've done that, you can telinit 3 to start up the graphical X
> login, and telinit 2 to go back.
If you want that to work properly, you'll also want to:
$ ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm /etc/rc2.d/K20xdm #potato number
so that changing back from runlevel 3 to runlevel 2 will kill xdm.
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