[Gllug] Debian: Laptop.

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Mon Sep 15 15:40:29 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Tethys announce to the hordes:
> 
> 
> Chris Bell writes:
> 
> >   Have a look at man init, I think you need a file called /etc/inittab
> 
> Oh, I know how to do it via init. But Doug Winter claimed:
> 
>     There is no X runlevel in standard Debian - it was always a bit of a
>     bizarro Redhat hack anyway.  Runlevels always were a solution in search
>     of a problem.
> 
> I was just trying to work out how Debian people did it without hand
> crafting something that ended up looking like the "Redhat hack". So
> far, I haven't found an answer. It seems like the only real difference
> between the two is that RH comes with sane defaults for its run levels...

It does it by having S99xdm(and kdm/gdm) in all runlevels
to make it use a runlevel 5 only XDM, you delete it from /etc/rc2.d (and 3.d
and 4.d)


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