Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007 23:51, schreef Stephen Harris: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:21:02PM +0100, Rody wrote: > > Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007 23:04, schreef Andrew Bogecho: > > > >> After testing the beta of CentOS 5, i was a little surprised to > > > >> notice that the display manager part of the prefdm file in /etc/X11 > > > >> was exactly like in CentOS 4 / RHEL4 and previous versions including > > > >> RH9. > > > >> > > > >> 17 . /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > > >> > > > >> Line 17 is no functional command i know of, therefor the choice of > > > > > > > > I believe that in bash and sh placing . (dot) followed by a space and > > > > If tried (tested) that but if you have DESKTOP="KDE" in > > /etc/sysconfig/desktop and the original prefdm, than the loginscreen will > > be gdm and not kdm. > > You have to do it exactly correct. "./xxx" won't work; "/xxx" won't work, > it has to be exactly " . /xxx" > > > I wouldn't be surprised if the feature you mention existed, but it > > doesn't work like that on the redhat-pc's i've seen... > > It's existed on Unix for many decades. > > Here's an example from a 4.4 system showing how it works. > > bash-3.00$ cat x > VAR=changed > bash-3.00$ echo $VAR > > bash-3.00$ VAR=original > bash-3.00$ echo $VAR > original > bash-3.00$ . x > bash-3.00$ echo $VAR > changed > bash-3.00$ cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 4.4 (Final) > bash-3.00$ > > > So basically in the original, /etc/sysconfig/desktop consists of a line > like DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE > and the system works as expected. Thanks for the extra info, it would seem that i was sortof misguided by incorrect use of the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file. I once tried DISPLAYMANAGER="KDM", but i realize now why that didn't work. .. Regards, Rody _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos