Ben Scott writes: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > 4: what happens when you type "telinit 5"? > > FYI, Debian and (IIRC) Ubuntu don't use runlevel 5 normally. They > normally boot to runlevel 2, and use a service to start/stop an X > display manager. So, I think the equivalent command would be: > > /etc/init.d/gdm start > > I could be wrong, this is from memory, and I haven't used Ubuntu in > a while, either. IIRC, Ubuntu replaced the standard SysV init with > some new thing, and it may not even have initscripts anymore.
Yeah, I sort-of knew this. I probably should have booted up one of my Ubuntu VMs before I sent this. Regardless, we all got the debug process moving along.... (-: --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc / http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ GnuPG: D87F DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E And the Army Ants, they leave nothin' but the bones... -- Tom Waits _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/