-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may > be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the > rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching > the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with various keywords (init, > xdm, level, etc.) but came up empty. Basically, I seem to recall the sysvinit maintainer saying that this is done simply to maximize the flexibility for the admin. Where other distributions and sysvinit based Unixes define some policy regarding what is started at what runlevel, Debian chose to start with all multi-user runlevels identical and let the admin customize them. > Also, in this environment what is the correct way to boot into a console > login and avoid starting XDM? I find it hard to believe the "correct" > way is to edit /etc/init.d/xdm and add in an "exit 0" to the top, which > is what I've been doing :-/. If you wish to define runlevel 2 (for example) as non-graphical-login, then remove /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm. Then you can specify runlevel 2 at boot or whatever and go to a non-graphical login, or boot into another runlevel for a graphical login. You might also want to do what most other unixes do and add a /etc/rc2.d/K99xdm so if you move from runlevel n>2 to runlevel 2 then your graphical login will exit. HTH, noah _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOZxO1odCcpBjGWoFAQEHVAP+Ped1RqRlHNYS2nmQc3hbGBT2kHGBQCDu i0Qqx8SivEVFg2TBvb5QoX2tL3h0hFx9oGgm9g50QbamoBB9/UN+95fk4joW+EE5 +OUN0OspofEaDSkLMmCNK1eHtzeoE3UrIPOr5259GfzdXYGxLCe7APdRW4hfVKDs zGUmI7WKUms= =Qsxh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
