Re: Minor Technical Difficulties

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:56:28AM +0200, Alberto Cabello S?nchez wrote:
:
:For the machine don't start at graphics mode, it suffices to change the line (of /etc/inittab)
:  id:5:initdefault: 
:5 is the default runlevel, so you  can put in it 3  (multi-user, no graphics mode).

Unless I'm mistaken, the runlevel is irrelevant in Debian (unless you
as the administrator configure it to be relevent), by default if xdm
is installed it starts in all multi-user runlevels (2,3,4,5).

RedHat (possibly others?), starts xdm in /etc/inittab rather than from
a normal rcN.d script, and uses runlevel 5 for graphic mode, runlevel
3 for console mode.

Debian uses runlevel 2 as the default.

-Jon