Re: default run levels

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu>]

Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> writes:
KS> Doesn't RedHat use this to determine whether to start XDM or not?

Yes; runlevel 5 starts xdm, other runlevels don't.  You can fairly
easily set up Debian to work this way as well.  By default, though,
xdm gets started in every runlevel if the xdm package is installed and
in none if it isn't.  (In slink and later.)

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