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Re: control init process



On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:29:30AM +0100, anh le wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I'm a Debian 3.0r1 newbie from vietnam.
> 
> I have installed gdm but I want to control it behavior like follow:
> 
> 1. After loginng in, I do not want the system run gdm immediately, 
> but stay in console mode so that I can startx as neccessary.
> 
> 2. Each time I logout from gdm (System->logout) I want to come
> back into console mode, and don't want gdm respawn again.
> 
> Where can I find out docs, howtos  to re-write scripts my rc, init.d to to
> achieve it
> 
> Many thanks,
> ---
> anh
Hi Ahn,
why not get rid of gdm.
This way when you login, you are at a console and just need to startx.
and when you startx, you just exit and you are back at the console.
To do this, do:
apt-get remove gdm


HTH,
Kevin

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