From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: How do I stop GUI from autoloading? Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:39:48 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EC94114.6040401@bcgreen.com> References: <20030510100903.GA1586@localhost.localdomain> <200305192049.41645.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> <3EC92B60.1000406@bcgreen.com> <200305192155.49553.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200305192155.49553.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Richard Adams Cc: Amin , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Richard Adams wrote: > On Monday 19 May 2003 21:07, Stephen Samuel wrote: > > >>This solution presumes that X startup is controlled by the runlevel. >>I presume that you know about TurboLinux. I really only know RedHat. >>Apparently, some versions of Linux use methods other than run level >>to control X-Windows startup. > > > Name one that does not use /etc/inittab, i do not posess to know everything, > but i have never seen one which does not use the inittab method. I don't personally know of one, but I'm aware that it's definitely possible, and there's no reason to not do it (other than the fact that it'd confuse oldies like you and me). Since I haven't played with that many flavours of Linux, I can only accept as truth that there are some that do it in different ways. I'm not talking about the initstate value in inittab, here. I'm talking about there being an xdm startup entry in inittab for level 5 . Solaris is a non-linux example where the 'normal' states are 2 (non-networked) and 3(networked) and the use of X is determined via a different mechanism. Somebody who wanted to put together a version of Linux that looked as much like Solaris as posible would then be following the Solaris mechanism. -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication, reaching through fear, uncertainty and doubt to touch the jewel within each person and bring it to life. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs