Eric, 

To quote an instructor from many, many years ago "There are no dumb questions 
in this class.  The only dumb questions is the one that doesn't get asked."



Dave 






Dave Stuart
Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst
County of Ventura, CA
805-662-6731
[email protected]>>> "Eric Chevalier" <[email protected]> 1/6/2011 
11:39 AM >>>
On 1/6/2011 12:59 PM, David Stuart wrote:
> All,
>
> <you-idiot>
>
> I just saw something in the cookbook.  I'll bet my 'problem' is the 
> difference between running with run level 3 and run level 5...
>
> Thanks anyway, for all your ideas
>
> </you-idiot>
>
>
> Dave
>
> P.S. Yes, I can call myself that.

Dave,

Don't be so hard on yourself so quickly!

I just recently converted a RHEL 4 system running on an x86 box from run
level 5 to run level 3. After the change I can still connect via "ssh -X
..." and run X applications on the Linux box just fine. (I'm using Xming
on a Windows 7 box to connect to the Linux system.)

I don't have any experience with SLES11, but on the RHEL box the big
difference between the two run levels is that level 5 starts a local X
server on the Linux box while level 3 does not. You shouldn't need an X
server running on your SLES system in order to run X apps on that box,
the X server needs to run on your remote workstation of course.

You might want to check to see if level 3 starts the font server (xfs);
your remote workstation might be expecting to find it. Also, permit me a
dumb question: when you installed SLES11, did you install the X runtime
libraries that your apps are going to require?

Eric

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