Karsten M. Self said: > more consistent than Red Hat (which sticks X display manager startup into > /etc/inittab for some strange reason), and provides generaly
the one thing I do like about this setup is init itself.. if X is hosed and [gdkw]dm is in a loop, init will kill it automatically after a few seconds("X is respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes" or whatever). whereas in debian it can be somewhat complicated for a newbie to fix a system that is stuck in a [gdkw]dm loop, only way I know of is to boot to single user mode(unless the person can login to the machine via network). then disable the display manager. besides that I agree, debian has some of the cleanest init setups I've come accross in my journeys. I don't know about others but I really don't like the redhat/suse/etc init scripts that source that functions script, really makes it more difficult to understand what is going on, I mean its a 440 line script(redhat 7.3)! and of course I really don't like having to make my own init scripts for services on freebsd, seems only a minority of 'ports' on freebsd come with sample init scripts, and why they make their init scripts so they don't work unless you call them from the full path(/usr/local/etc/rc.d/script.sh) I wish I knew.. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]