> > As part of your initscripts, 'xdm' (x display manager) > > or 'gdm' (gnome display manager) is being called. > > You need to kill that process... I don't know if there's > > a more graceful way. > > /etc/init.d/xdm stop I should have known/remembered that... Since I don't use xdm, I had a brain-block and forgot the start, stop, reload, etc commands. Hall