Re: WindowMaker startup
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:53:41AM -0700, D. wrote:
> --- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > You have a display manager installed - probably xdm or gdm. You
> > could just remove that package if you don't want to use it.
> > Alternatively, look in the /etc/rc2.d directory where you'll find an
> > S99gdm (etc.) link; move that to s99gdm (lower-case s) to cause the
> > display manager not to be automatically started at boot-time.
>
> If you want to remove the Display Manager do
> update-rc.d -f 'gdm' remove
No, if you do that then your change will be undone the next time you
upgrade the display manager package. That, I suspect, is why it requires
the force (-f) option in this situation.
Changing the symlink is better because the change will be preserved on
upgrade.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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