Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: X> Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TG> You can start a service like this: TG> #/etc/init.d/networking (start|stop|restart) X> X> I tried xdm stop and got some strange error saying that "stop" X> wasn't a valid parameter (I didn't write down the exact error.)
Did you explicitly try /etc/init.d/xdm stop? If you just run 'xdm stop' as root, it'll probably try to start /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm with the 'stop' parameter, which isn't what you want at all. (And it's often very helpful when trying to solve problems to include the exact text of error messages.) X> I also have another question. If I remove the symlink to xfs and X> xdm, will there be any services or anything that will not get X> started via startx? I'm still having a problem where when I remove X> xfs and xdm (or simply just xdm) and use startx, then XF86Setup X> crashes the system. If your XF86Config file has an explicit dependency on a local font server, then you'll need to start xfs before you start X. You can check by looking for the font path in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file; if it just lists actual directories and not anything like "tcp/localhost:7100" or "unix/:-1", then you don't need xfs. If it does list one of these, you probably want to leave the xfs link to start the X font server at boot time. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
