also sprach Yang Shouxun (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 07:58:59AM +0800): > Thanks, this trick does it. Probably Debian GNU/Linux can adopt the > same strategy as used in Red Hat and ask the user whether to boot the > system in X-windows mode or not, even when the X-windows works.
Not that this is part of the debian policy actually, but it is custom to use runlevel 3 as the X runlevel, and 2 as the console runlevel. so the xdm link should only exist in the rc3.d directory as S99xdm whereas it should exist as K01xdm in the other 5 rc?.d directories. Now you can manipulate the line containing "initdefault" in /etc/inittab to control which runlevel to boot into, or use the init 3 command to switch to runlevel 3 on the fly (be careful with that if it's a multiuser system). if you are mildly confused by the /etc/rc?.d SystemV hierarchy mess, i recommend you try out the filerc package - it replaces the whole hierarchy with a single file: /etc/runlevel.conf. and if you don't like it, uninstalling filerc will convert that file back to the SysV hierarchy. thank god for filerc! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- three things are certain: death, taxes and lost data. guess which has occurred.
