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Liam Greenwood: Your XDM question

From Liam Greenwood on Fri, 25 Dec 1998

Here's a suggestion that I'll just pass along.

To run XDM and not run have XDM start an Xserver on your local host:

telinit 3  # go to runlevel 3 (no xdm)

edit the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and comment out the line which looks like this:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X

...by putting a # at the start.

telinit 5   # go to runlevel 5 to start xdm

(on a Red hat system... others may have the config file in another place).

Cheers, Liam

Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer... ...she thinks I'm a piano player in a brothel.

Copyright © 1999, James T. Dennis
Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 36 January 1999

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