Alan Cox wrote: > > > deep enough into the docs, there is a suggestion to use /etc/inittab > > to start it, but I don't think that any of the distributions are really > > doing it that way. > > Why does the spec need to specify how you start xdm. Its not something > apps generally want to do, and X11 with gdm kdm, and all the xdm variants > may exist. A box may even only have X11 remotely
I don't think "how" it's started should be something LSB adresses. I like to start it from a script personally, called out of inittab. But "where" the default location for runlevel information, and various scripts, and the actual "run level definitions" (0 through 6) actually mean would be a benifit to have defined. Setting it to multiuser GUI login (3 in Debian, 5 in Redhat) can be done however the line in inittab is written or rewritten to by the distribution or user. But a standard place to find it (file location) and standard numbering would be much easier for GUI configuration tools to handle, as well as general system maintainance, and "installation scripts" for login tools like xdm, kdm, gdm, wdm, etc.. to find and verify/change. So, IMHO, "how" is not something the LSB should mess with, that's up to the various distributions, X-servers, and login tools to do. But "where" they do it is sort of an incompatable mess that could be streighened out. -- "Robert W. Current" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - email http://chem20.chem.und.nodak.edu - work stuff http://www.current.nu - personal web site http://freshmeat.net - editorial coordinator "Hey mister, turn it on, turn it up, and turn me loose." - Dwight Yoakam
