This is still an interesting thread. I appreciate all the great insight. Would you characterize this as something a end user should be required to deal with?
Catch my point? Devin. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Reser Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Request for the X login screen On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:32:25AM -0500, allen wrote: > What is the stuff that kicks off the graphical login ? How does that > work exactly ? I'm happy to figure it out if someone just points me > at the starting thing that I can trace through... source if necessary. > > Something in the initrd ? I hate that... No... it's in the /etc/inittab: # Run xdm in runlevel 5 # xdm is now a separate service x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon And init will detect if it's looping and it supposed to stop trying to load it. If you just want to totally disable this you just need to change this line in your inittab: id:5:initdefault: to: id:3:initdefault: -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
