-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 02:27:38PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote: > From: Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> > > There is nothing wrong with using X11 at runlevel 3. The only thing > > that can't be present is a display manager (KDM, XDM, GDM etc). > > That's _exactly_ what I'm talking about. > Run-level 3 starts xdm. > Several Linux distros use 2 for multi-user, 3 for multi-user w/X. > > Run-level 2 as multi-user w/o networking or w/o NFS was introduced > by Red Hat, and any Fedora-based (or RHL-based) distro uses it. Oh, just one thing. I don't have Fedora here to test, otherwise I would check myself. Are you sure it is starting xdm at runlevel 3 ? I noticed several distros are not definining the runlevel as a kernel paramter on grub/lilo, which will bypass the one defined on inittab. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCn5ampdyWzQ5b5ckRAssTAJ4r8okk4Yg5POL/6SPEDjbYkm/KqgCgtbNo TTiFWpdn+gm1LwGzFilAMvc= =JeRf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----