[arch-general] Display Manager rc.d scripts

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Sun, 8 May 2011 20:29:59 +0200
> schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>:
>
>> As to the problem of a broken system: This is what single user mode is
>> for. No need for a livecd.
>
> Is this really what single user mode is for? I haven't used it, yet. And
> how do I switch or boot into single user mode?

Same as booting into runlevel 3, just use 1 (or S) instead. I.e.
append "1" to your kernel parameters in grub/syslinux.

>> From my point of view there is no benefit to the inittab method and
>> some benefit to the daemon method.
>
> I see it the other way round, because I still see no benefit from
> starting daemons in the background. In fact I only saw regressions.

My point was that with using DAEMONS you can do either.

> [...] xorg should be
> started as the last application, if the user doesn't know what he is
> doing.

Agreed.

Cheers,

Tom