Re: Missed the first post (duplicate on XDM)

[Andreas Johansson <ajo wopr campus luth se>]

On Sun, 24 May 1998 mgraffam@mhv.net wrote:

> I don't know if RH has that set up properly or not, but why not save
> yourself the headache of finding out and just add "xdm &" to some
> startup script, like rc.local?
> 
> Makes more sense to me, and if xdm fails or X bombs or whatever you will
> still have a virtual console to fix up the system without rebooting.

Well, as I use a monosync monitor I use xdm. I can confirm that Red Hat's
xdm setup works very well with the inittab change, only you should use
initlevel 5 rather than level 4 as suggested previously. All you need to
do is change the first noncomment line in /etc/inittab from this

id:3:initdefault:

to this

id:5:initdefault:

and xdm will come up automatically at boot. To change initlevel to 5 at a
given time, use 'telinit 5'. You will NOT lose your "normal" vt:s when you
run at initlevel 5 per default (this can be changed in inittab if you
don't want them).

/Andreas