I use WDM (WINGs Display Manager) instead of xdm to manage X on my slink box. I have noticed this weird thing when shutting down or rebooting my system.
After I enter shutdown/poweroff/reboot, the X server is terminated but then I am 'dumped' back to the first virtual console (tty1). I don't see any of the messages like : shutting down XXX shutting down YYY shutting down ZZZ sending HUP siganl to all processes sending KILL signal to all processes However, if I immediately press Ctrl+Alt+F7 right after getting dumped to the first VC, I do see these messages. My question is : why is this not happening be default so that whenever I shutdown/poweroff/reboot the system I should see these termination messages ?? Is this syslog configuration issue or a WDM configuration issue ? I was used seeing this output from RedHat when it shutdown and it didn't require any configuration tweaking. Thanks for any help. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
