Re: Clearing SWAP

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:27:05AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:06:22PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Sat May 3 2008, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > >     alias startx='startx -- :0 vt07'
> > >     alias startx='startx -- :1 vt08'
> > >     alias startx='startx -- :2 vt09'
> > so, you don't automagically start the X server on bootup,
> 
> if you REALLY want automatic startx consider this:
> 
> in /etc/inittab
> 
> 2:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user2 </dev/tty2 >/dev/tty2 2>&1
> 3:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user3 </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>&1
> 4:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user4 </dev/tty4 >/dev/tty4 2>&1
> 
> (which must _replace_ the 2:... 3:... and 4:... lines in /etc/inittab)
> 
> and then 
> 
> at the end of ~user2/.bash_profile
> [ `tty` = /dev/tty2 ] && exec startx -- :0 vt07
> 
> at the end of ~user3/.bash_profile
> [ `tty` = /dev/tty3 ] && exec startx -- :1 vt08
> 
> at the end of ~user4/.bash_profile
> [ `tty` = /dev/tty4 ] && exec startx -- :2 vt09
> 
> But you should also carefully consider: is it a really good idea to have
> one (or more) automatically started X session ?

Or simpler: run gdm on those three consoles (with auto-login). And get
actually an error-handling that actually works.

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