On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote: Glenn Becker wrote:
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^)
I'd say - no.
Okay! :^)
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
to restore:
#update-rc.d gdm defaults
I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess.
G
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Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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I guess I do things a different way than everyone else. All I do on the
machines I have that have a gui installed, but I'd prefer them to not
boot to the gui, is just rename /etc/init.d/gdm to /etc/init.d/gdm.old.
Then the all the links at the different run levels don't see the gdm
startup script. Then if I was to fire up the gui all I do is type, as
root, gdm and hit enter.
Is it an elegant solution? No. Is it easy to change if I ever decide I
want to boot into the gui? Yes. All I do is rename /etc/init.d/gdm.old
to gdm and I'm good to go.
You can also put 'exit 0' at the top of the script so that it doesn't execute.
I use 'apt-get remove gdm'. When it is not installed, it surely will
not run at startup ;-). If you do use this approach, you need to make
sure that you also remove kdm, xdm, and any other ?dm.