[PLUG] where does Red Hat start x?

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Tue Dec 30 11:43:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 06:20, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> 
> > # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> > # xdm is now a separate service
> > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> >
> > I haven't tested this...but try commenting out the last line there.
> 
>   I think you'd have major problems if you don't specify a default runlevel.
> Of course, I could be completely wrong, but that's because I've never tried
> doing such. My fiancee's laptop fires up with kdm, but all other machines
> begin in runlevel 3.


Not a big problem. If you don't specify a runlevel in inittab,
the init program will prompt you for a runlevel when it starts.

Ed


> Rich





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