Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:12:56PM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> Hi all!!!
>
> During the last few weeks, there have been
> discussions about how to keep X from
> automatically starting upon booting the system.
> Most replys leaned towards disabling xdm in the
> runlevel directory. This does work. However, I
> came upon something strange. Here's what I did.
>
> My default runlevel was runlevel 2.
>
> I changed my default runlevel in /etc/inittab to
> runlevel 3.
>
> (note that /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d have the
> same symlinks.)
>
> in /etc/rc3.d I canged the symlink of S99xdm from
> ../init.d/xdm to /dev/null
Aargh! Don't do that. Just remove the symlink S99xdm and XDM will not
be run at boot for the given runlevel. As long as you leave one symlink
in one of the rc?.d dirs, upgrades of xdm will never modify these
settings.
>
> This successfully keeps X from starting
> automatically when I reboot the system.
>
> The I use startx to start XFree.
>
> Inside X, I try to run XF86Setup and the system
> hangs.
>
> I changed the symlink of S99xdm from /dev/null
> back to ../init.d/xdm
>
> This makes X start automatically when I reboot
> the system.
>
> XF86Setup runs without any problems.
>
> comments? suggestions?
>
> Xucaen
>
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