On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:12:41PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Ok, how does this X thing work with Debian? Under Redhat I have
> a respawn statement in the /etc/inittab.
>
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
> What's the deal with Debian?
Debian is a kernel independent OS, runs with Linux, Hurd and
if I wasn't dreaming at the time, freebsd.
> 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?
On my debian system, if I kill my X server, xdm restarts it.
If I kill xdm, then X and xdm stay dead, they don't get
restarted.
As far as I know, this is the standard behaviour.
When you say you kill it, what and how are you doing it?
I'd guess that you were killing X, and not xdm.
(ie [ctrl][alt][backspace] at the xdm login prompt kills your
X server, and xdm will restart it)
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