hi Ralph,
> I don't know. I think one gdm handles the possibly many X servers and
> arranges :{0,1,...}.log files. It maybe something related to booting
> rotates them before gdm gets started. I'm not au fait with the new way
> of starting things up in recent releases so don't know the path from
> init(8) to gdm. :-) Anyone else?
the .{0,1,..}.logs are written by the server, I do have those when I
start one or more servers manually.
automatic use of gdm/xdm would require a change of runlevel, I'll have
a nose around the default setups provided sometime in the next frew
days and see what's up. will get back to you on this.
--
regards, jr.
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