On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't > >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx & > >exit". > > Instead of "nohup startx & exit", why not just "startx"? Looking at the > man and info pages for nohup, I can't figure out what advantage it > provides here.
Because startx alone would leave a useless login shell running. If you forget about it and think you locked the machine (e.g. with xlock) someone could still switch to the console, type Ctrl-Z and have a shell. Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
