[CLUE-Tech] X on Woody

[Randy Arabie]

On Thursday, 13 February 2003 at 11:30:09 -0700, Keith Hellman <kehellman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:12:16PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> > Another question: how do I turn off gpm/xdm trying to launch at 
> > startup? Until I get this working, there is little point in that trying to
> > launch. :) I checked /etc/inittab, and it didn't look like it's set there. 
> > 
> I didn't see anyone address this question, so I'll give it a shot.  In
> RH and SuSE XDM is controlled by the runlevel that init boots to.  There
> should be an initdefault entry in your /etc/inittab that dictates the
> boot-to-runlevel.  I believe I set mine to 3 to avoid XDM.
> 
> If this isn't a solution (I don't use Debian), then you can
> remove/unlink the XDM startup script in your startup directories.

When I installed Debian (woody) it setup XDM via inetd.  Debian provides
a utility, update-inetd, to disable or remove services started via
inetd.

-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 232 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue-tech/attachments/20030213/7d4ffb0b/attachment.bin