Re: [SLUG] Stopping autostart of X11

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 02:02:29 EDT


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 01:20:56 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
> <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> > /etc/rc.d/(init.d/)?dm and make it non-executable, or maybe there's a link
> > to it in rc3.d . If you find out its filename ("foo" for
> > /etc/rc.d/(init.d/)foo), then you can try "chkconfig --del foo".
> >
> > You can always get to a console login even if X starts; ctrl-alt-F[1-6],
> > but that probably isn't sufficient. :-)
>
> In RH it is a level 5 respawn that I always commented out. I do recall that was
> somewhere else on SuSA.
>
> If I can just figure out where it is and comment it out. I like to log
> in at the cmd
> line and then do a startx if I need the gui.

On my laptop (SuSE 9.1), /etc/inittab has

id:5:initdefault

Is yours different? Change that 5 to a 3 and Robert's your father's
brother.

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