Henning Garus wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
There is one real advantage to the inittab method. When your X hangs on start, due to misconfiguration or whatever, you don't have to boot from a livecd to remove the daemon from rc.conf, you just have to change your runlevel. Even though it is something you might never need, it is good to know that you have this option. Or you could just reboot into single user mode and edit your rc.conf. I guess with the runlevel thing the advantage is you wouldn't need to reboot
On Wed, April 22, 2009 7:55 pm, Henning Garus wrote: though?
Ok you got me there. You would have to reboot anyway once the machine hangs. I guess there is really no difference besides choosing not to start X in grub.
For me, I have always used inittab, just because it was always already provided when I stepped up to Linux with Mandrake (Air) 7.0. The only considerations I have is "What am I using the box for?" If it is a server, then I just like to boot to runlevel 3 and if I want kde, then I just issue startx, do what I need to do, then logout and I'm dumped back to the CLI to finish up, and then monitor is turned "off." If it is a desktop box with multiple users, then I will want the default to be runlevel 5 with either kdm or xdm doing the auth so everyone has a nice graphical logon. Right now, I'm still working my way up to getting kde going, then I'll worry about where I put kdm3 ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com