Dave and Mark, Thanks for putting me straight on the SSH. I was way of track. I will look into startx.
Thanks............ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave wrote: > On SLES7 I am able to SSH to the Linux instance. When I enter > yast2 I get > the following: > > lnxsftwm:~ # yast2 > Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display "lnxsftwm:10.0" > > I copied the xdm init scripts to rc3.d from rc5.d DON'T DO THAT! There is a deliberate difference between runlevel 3 and runlevel 5, and the X stuff is in runlevel 5 for a reason. 390 linux doesn't go there because it doesn't have any of the necessary hardware. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Terry L. Spaulding IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]