Re: I want to StartX Manually

[Albrecht Frank <abfrankffm@arcormail.de>]

Robert Cymbala wrote:
> 
> Dan wrote:
>  > To Whom It May Concern,
>  >
>  >
>  > I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot.  How do I do
>  > this.  I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong
>  > thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything.  Where is it loacted?
>  >
>  > Any help will be honored.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Dan
> 
> Andrew wrote:
>  >Get rid of /etc/rc*/*xdm .
>  >
>  >Alternatively, edit /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid starting xdm.
>  >
>  >ap
> 

Hi,
I've got another method: runlevels! Default is runlevel 2
(/etc/inittab).
If you remove the links to xdm from rc2.d, xdem will only start
if you say (as root of course): init 3.

See also man update-rc.d

Greetings
Albrecht