runlevels

[Jim Cheetham]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:11 -0500, Kevin wrote:
> I am relatively new to Debian-based distros.  I can't figure out where
> in the boot scripts X is getting started, or how to disable it.  I need
> to set up a multi-user runlevel where the X server is not running.
> Help!

X is being started by the 'gdm' script, which is linked into /etc/rc
[2345]. So basically everywhere :-)

The default runlevel is 2, so just remove /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm and you
should be in business.

-jim