I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may
be a oh no, not this again question); maybe someone can put the
rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching
the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with various keywords (init,
xdm, level, etc.) but
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Paul D. Smith wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may
be a oh no, not this again question); maybe someone can put the
rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching
the
I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list.
I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but
how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will
I still be logged in as root? What if X crashes and returns the system to
non-X,
On 17-Aug-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may
be a oh no, not this again question); maybe someone can put the
rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching
the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with
John Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JR I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list.
JR I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but
JR how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will
JR I still be logged in as root?
%% David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dzm So X and console login, under Linux, is *not* an either-or case.
dzm Under the default Debian setup, you get console logins on tty1..6, and
dzm X starts (by default) on tty7. This means that you can press
dzm Ctrl+Alt+F1..6 to get six
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:06:58PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list.
I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but
how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will
I still be
%% Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
lb If you had looked more carefully, you would have seen that xdm
lb isn't started only at runlevel 2, it's started at every runlevel.
Who says I didn't look carefully enough to see that? I did notice it's
started at all levels above 1.
I want a
%% Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nlm Basically, I seem to recall the sysvinit maintainer saying that
nlm this is done simply to maximize the flexibility for the admin.
nlm Where other distributions and sysvinit based Unixes define some
nlm policy regarding what is started at
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