>>>>> "David" == David N Olaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

David> Hello: This may sound silly to some of you but I could not
David> figure out what it meant by:

David> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

David> especially the -nodaemon option, and if I remove it, nothing
David> changes?  Can someone explain a bit what the option does?

gdm will automagically run in nodaemon mode if it is spawned by init.
But I suspect xdm and kdm still need the parameter.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/
SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/



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