On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 09:28, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Paul" == Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes: > > Paul> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:47:42AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh > Paul> wrote: > >> id:2:initdefault: > >> > >> i thought with this, i will get a text login. but i always > >> end-up in gdm!! > > Paul> No, no. You're thinking Red Hat runlevels.[1] > > >> how do i stop this? i will like to have text login prompt. > > Paul> Go into /etc/rc2.d and mv S99gdm K99gdm and this should > Paul> prevent gdm from starting up. > > IMHO this is a better way (and more correct) than apt-removing gdm. > > You should do the same for S99kdm and S99xdm if you have them. This > way you can always change your runlevel to 2 for text logins, and use > the others for normal X logins if you ever want to. If you remove gdm > you lose that option. > > BTW, in Debian all multi-user run levels are set up to be the same by > default. You are supposed to customize them as you need. You should > read the policy manual if you are interested in details: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > > Cheers! > Shyamal If you are going to get into shuffling around these items, I would suspect that long-term package management considerations *might* be better respected if you use update-rc.d(8) to make your changes, rather than just diving in and renaming files that are *managed* by dpkg. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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