Thanks to John P Speno. Removing or renaming xlogin in /sbin/rc#.d should
do the trick.
Allen
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----- Original Message -----
From: John P Speno <speno_at_isc.upenn.edu>
To: Allen Belk <allen.belk_at_usm.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: X attempts to start after switching to serial console
> > What mechanism determines whether or not X should start based on serial
or
> > graphics console? I have switched from graphics to serial console on an
> > AS1200 and the xlogin still attempts to start. What is the best way to
stop
> > this?
>
> You need to stop /sbin/init.d/xlogin from running at startup.
>
> I prefer to do it this way:
>
> mv /sbin/rc3.d/S95xlogin /sbin/rc3.d/s95xlogin
>
> changing the case of the 'S' is enough to stop it from starting.
>
> For more info, brush up on inittab, and rc0, rc2, and rc3. All have
> man pages.
>
Received on Wed May 26 1999 - 14:59:27 NZST