On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, April 22, 2009 7:55 pm, Henning Garus 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 > 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.
