Re: How to quit XDM ?
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 05:35:18PM -0500, Brad wrote:
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| As has been mentioned before, this isn't the best solution either. Say you
| remove the link in runlevel 2. Fine, xdm doesn't start on boot. Then you
| change to level 3, and xdm is started. Again, good. But now you change
| back to level 2, where xdm shouldn't be running. What happens? xdm is
| still there, since you never told the system to kill it in runlevel 2.
Yes, but this begs the question, why? I don't know of any good reason
to go around changing runlevels midstream. The only time that makes
any sense to me, is when you want to do maintainence, and don't want
anyone else using the system, and only the minimal services running.
For that, using "shutdown now" brings you down to runlevel 1, then
you log in as root, do whatever, and then bring the system back up. Am
I missing something here?
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Eric G. Miller
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