On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:39:16AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:56:28AM +0200, Alberto Cabello S?nchez wrote: : > Unless I'm mistaken, the runlevel is irrelevant in Debian (unless you > as the administrator configure it to be relevent), by default if xdm > is installed it starts in all multi-user runlevels (2,3,4,5). It Ăs.
> RedHat (possibly others?), starts xdm in /etc/inittab rather than from > a normal rcN.d script, and uses runlevel 5 for graphic mode, runlevel > 3 for console mode. > > Debian uses runlevel 2 as the default. > > -Jon I always wondered, why are there different ways of using the runlevels? It took me a while to figure out why "telinit 3" won't kill X! Danie. -- "In Smalltalk, everything is an object" If you have procedural programming experience, this is a good mantra to repeat for about 6 months. -- Seen in Linux Gazette