startup/stop init scripts for gdm/kdm
Sean Middleditch
elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Wed Oct 8 16:52:00 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:53, Chris Spencer wrote:
> Due to repeated failures on freshly burned CD's I ended up doing a
> minimal install and adding packages as I needed over the network.
>
> I am curious about why startup scripts for /etc/init.d weren't packaged
> with kdm or gdm when I added them.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I can make them myself but just curious why they weren't created.
>
> Are they part of another package? Auto created by some other tool?
kdm/gdm aren't started by the runlevel scripts, they're started by
inittab. Last three lines of /etc/inittab on my system:
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
(this selects between kdm/gdm/others using a system config option)
>
> -Chris
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin,
> Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
>
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