On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:20:07 +0000, Jonathan Andrews <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) gdm doesn't have a process itself, it runs from init - but when gdm > is started it seems to undergo a name change to "gdm-binary" without > being owned by gdm or anything called gdm. As a result its not possible > to cleanly restart gdm ? ie no "/etc/init.d/gdm restart". Am I missing > something here or this a bit naff ? > /etc/X11/prefdm is a script set to respawn and has logic to use selectable dm's using /etc/sysconfig/desktop (which could easily be configured to use kdm or xdm). Here's a question for you... how does init know when its appropriate to respawn prefdm? /usr/bin/gdm is just a shell script that calls gdm-binary. The shell script here is very simple and seems to only be checking to make sure that /etc/profile is run if available. Is this script wrapper necessarily for correct gdm operation? -jef
