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Re: X in startup



on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:20:47AM +0530, N. Raghavendra (raghu@mri.ernet.in) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> 
> > does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the
> > command line using startx?
> > <DTurner@emis-support.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > after booting up press <ctrl><alt> F1 to go into a console
> > > terminal.  logon as root.  cd /etc/rc2.d rm S??xdm  # or just
> > > move it, if you dont want to delete it....  shutdown -r now
> > > worked for me this morning, anyway.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What I have been doing to stop /etc/init.d/ scripts (like xdm)
> from being executed at bootup is to put the line
> 	exit 0
> at the top of the file (as the first uncommented line). This
> makes the script neatly exit without doing anything.

I've been known to do this, but I prefer to add an echo to indicate that
this is the case.  Scripts which silently fail can be annoying.  E.g.:

    echo "Not starting foo"; exit 0

Cheers.

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