Carl:
I tried emailing you directly, thanking your for your help but the mail
got bounced back. Perhaps you will get it throught the list.
And, to everyone else that responded - THANKS! It was a simple change and
I appreciate the responses I got. My problem is fixed and I'm happy
again!
-Rod
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Carl Isenburg wrote:
> If you look at /etc/inittab, it will tell you what each of the runlevels does. What
>you want to do is configure your system to boot to the runlevel that runs xdm. I
>recently converted my redhat system to Slackware, and I had my redhat system running
>that way, but I don't remember which runlevel it is, or where I set the default...
>In Slackware, I can just put "init 4" at the end of my rc.local...
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Gotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 3:02 AM
> To: KC1.SMTP("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")@Groupwise
> Subject: Starting X
>
> Hi.
>
> I am running RedHat-5.1 and have XFree86 configured and ready on my
> system. I can start it by running the command 'startx' and everything
> works as expected.
>
> My question is, how do I get X to start before I even login. I am under
> the impression that I can configure Linux to start X before anyone logs in
> and they are presented with an X login prompt, etc. Is this true? If so,
> can someone either give me or point me to detailed information on how I do
> it. I looked at the 'xdm' command and it was not intuitively obviouse to
> me how and where I should use it.
>
> Thanks
> -Rod
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