On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:41:52AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:37:21AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > why not have a script that is run by root at @reboot that starts X > [snip] > Your method would not directly work in my workstation which does not run > any form of cron. (I manually, and rarely, run a script to rotate logs. > And analogously for other possible cron tasks which I am interested in) > Yep, and your method would work on my workstation (currently running windows (yuck), and yes I have a X server on here). I was just trying to show another way of solving the problems. My presumption was that cron was part of the LSB. It also got around the problem somebody asked, what to do if the Xserver crashed on startup, how to get around the cycle of restarting the X server and getting to a console. Horses for courses really [snip] > -- > Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. > Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. > Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "We must have the attitude that every child in America ? regardless of where they're raised or how they're born -- can learn." - George W. Bush 04/18/2001 New Britain, CN
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