%% "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
nlm> Basically, I seem to recall the sysvinit maintainer saying that
nlm> this is done simply to maximize the flexibility for the admin.
nlm> Where other distributions and sysvinit based Unixes define some
nlm> policy regarding what is sta
%% Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lb> If you had looked more carefully, you would have seen that xdm
lb> isn't started only at runlevel 2, it's started at every runlevel.
Who says I didn't look carefully enough to see that? I did notice it's
started at all levels above 1.
I want
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:06:58PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list.
>
> I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but
> how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will
> I still be
%% "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
dzm> So X and console login, under Linux, is *not* an either-or case.
dzm> Under the default Debian setup, you get console logins on tty1..6, and
dzm> X starts (by default) on tty7. This means that you can press
dzm> Ctrl+Alt+F1..6 to get si
John Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JR> I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list.
JR> I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but
JR> how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will
JR> I still be logged in as ro
On 17-Aug-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may
> be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the
> rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching
> the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with
I'm glad this question was asked - I'm learning a lot on this list.
I plan to set my system up like this, so I don't boot directly into X, but
how should I start xdm? If I run xdm or switch to a runlevel with X, will
I still be logged in as root? What if X crashes and returns the system to
non-X,
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may
> be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the
> rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching
> th
I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may
be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the
rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching
the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with various keywords (init,
xdm, level, etc.) bu
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