Re: How do I stop X

["Dennis Krinke,,," <nwdck@yahoo.com>]

Thanks to all that responded.

dman wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:35:26PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote:
> | I would like to change configuration
> | so that I boot into a console,
> | rather than to X-windows graphical login.
> | 
> | I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from
> |   id:5:initdefault:  to
> |   id:2:initdefault:
> | but this did not do it...
>
> To disable X's starting at boot you need to disable your display
> manager in the runlevel you are booting to.  My system boots to run
> level 2, and I use 'gdm' as my display manager.  The simplest way for
> me to stop gdm from starting is (as root) :
>    mv /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm /etc/rc2.d/notS99gdm
This worked! (for xdm)

> To understand _why_ this stops gdm from starting on boot read up on
> how SysV init works.
OK, I browsed man sys(8) init.
That did help a little.
Perhaps that plus other reading and more time
will help more...
Dennis Krinke



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