I've haven't tried Debian yet but couldn't he just change the runlevel 
to 3 in the /etc/inittab file?

KevinO wrote:

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>>I have recently installed Debian on a box that I am
>>using as a server.  I would rather not have X start
>>every time I restart the server.  I would perfer to
>>manually started as it is needed.  However, I do not
>>recall how to configure it so it does not start up.  I
>>would like to have the command line login, rather than
>>graphical.  Could someone be so kind as to remind me
>>how to go about this?
>>
>>                         mike
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>Take a look in the directory '/etc/rc2.d' for a file called 'S99xdm'.
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>This file will be a symbolic link to a file in '/etc/init.d' called 'xdm'.
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>When your box boots, the file '/etc/inittab' is configured to bring the system
>up into runlevel 2. This means that scripts in the rc2.d directory that begin
>with a capital S will be started. (Or scripts linked to from there, where the
>link begins with a captial S)
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>Removing the file '/etc/rc2.d/S99xdm' will prevent X from starting up as part
>of the boot process, and can be done as follows:
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># rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm
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>To put it back the way that it was you will have to recreate the link again:
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># cd /etc/rc2.d
># ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm S99xdm
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>Note that the '#' number sign denotes that you have the root prompt and are
>executing these commands as the /superuser/.
>
>Please take a look at your system to make sure of these file names and adjust
>them if necessary. I do not have access to a deb box to double check them
>right now ;-)
>
># ls -l /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root  18 Oct 12 01:58 /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm -> ../init.d/xdm
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