On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Michael George wrote:
> I know that runlevel 3 brings the system up fully, but uses the text login.
> And IIRC, runlevel 5 will bring up the X server and run the GUI login.
>
> I'm curious, though, where does the X server get started? The contents of my
> /etc/rc.d/rc[35].d directories is the same, so it doesn't seem to get started
> there. I didn't find anything in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit...
>
> Just looking for enlightenment...
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Michael
The /etc/inittab controls which scripts/programs are executed when a box
enters a given run level. This line:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
is the one you are interested in. It says when the box goes to runlevel 5,
start /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon and restart it if it dies (respawn).
Hope this helps.
Steve
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