Re: Keeping X from restarting after killing it

[Markus Lindström <mlindstr@ulb.ac.be>]

CW Harris wrote:
> Don't know if there is a better "Debian" way, but you can edit your
> /etc/inittab to specify a default runlevel.  By default (IIRC) Debian
> installs with runlevel 2 (default) and 3 executing the same.
>
> You can for example, change runlevel 2 to not run your display manager
> similar to this (man update-rc.d):
>
>     update-rc.d gdm start 99 3 4 5 . stop 01 0 1 2 6 .
>
> This will make your default runlevel (2) *not* start gdm.  If you
> change your default runlevel to 3 then gdm *will* start and you can
> "telinit 2" to change to runlevel 2.

update-rc.d doesn't seem to work here... I get this as result: "System 
startup links for /etc/init.d/gdm already exist", and it seems nothing 
happened whatsoever.

Any idea on what's happening?

Cheers,
//Markus.