On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Peter Rundle wrote:
> What's the deal with Debian? There's nothing in /etc/inittab,
> but there is an xdm file in /etc/rc2.d. So that obviously starts
> it but what does the respawn, cause I kill it and it just starts
> again (as expected/desired) but this stop-start-daemon thing, is
> that some sort of dynamic way of adding to the init table?
Yes, I believe it's start-stop-daemon that does the respawning, although I don't
see anything about that sort of behaviour in the man page.
The nice thing about the way debian does it, is you can just do a
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
(or xdm or kdm, whatever the case may be)
to stop gdm/kdm/xdm. No switching runlevels and possibly starting/stopping other
things in the process. Which is nice :)
--
8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
Ian Tester *8)# \7\ LINUX: because geeks will find a way
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
