On Tue 2002-03-05, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: . > I made xdm not start an X server (comment the last line in > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) and have written an init.d script that runs > 'X -query localhost' in a loop with a 'sleep 30' between them. > That way, if X fails to start, I have 30 seconds to log in and > kill the script. > (Well, actually at work I did something more compilcated. If anyone > is interested, I can share my scripts). > Even though off-topic, I would like to here people's opinions > on the matter (as obviously will Shlomi, and I guess others).
my offtopic opinion is that this is a typical example why linux is so cool :) you can do what *you* want :-) (BTW, in my previous mail I meant startx&exit, not startx;exit) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
