[plug] X startup

[I am the LinuxAlien]

Well I have temporary fixed by moving the xdm exactable to xdbbak.bak and 
then rebooted. No X this time, I tried removing it with apt-get remove but 
it wanted to also remove X-windows?
Tim
At 10:05 16/07/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:50:03PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:45, I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
> > > Currently X starts up when I turn the computer on. This means I amd
> > > presented with xdm. How can I change this so I login with the Virtual
> > > Terminals?
> >
> > Permanently:
> >
> > vi /etc/inittab
> > /^id
> > <Ctrl-W><Ctrl-W><Ctrl-X><Ctrl-X>ZZ
>
>Reading this closely... On debian (LinuxAlien said he was using potato)
>this would be very bad, as it would change the init default run level to
>0, which would make the machine shutdown as soon as it started.  RedHat
>and Mandrake use runlevel 3 for normal multi-user, and 5 for multi-user
>with X.  Debian uses runlevel 2 for multi-user, and starts X with an init
>script.  So to stop the X login screen from appearing at boot
>
>  # rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm
>
>To restore it
>
>  # cd /etc/rc2.d
>  # ln -s ../init.d/xdm S99xdm
>
>(I know there is a tool to do this, I just can't remember what it is at
>the moment.)
>
>To do this temporarily
>
>  # /etc/init.d/xdm stop
>
>Or
>
>  # /etc/init.d/xdm start

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