Henning Garus wrote: > 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. > 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
