id:5:initdefault: in /etc/inittab on RH8

David Mandala plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
14 Mar 2003 10:14:06 -0700


Sound off to me, inittab is indeed the correct place to control this.
What happens when you try to run X on those machines? Does X run at all?

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 10:07, George Gambill wrote:
> I thought you could control booting to a GUI by id:5:initdefault: in
> /etc/inittab.
> 
> For some reason, I have two RH8 boxes that boot to the text based login with
> id:5:initdefault: in /etc/inittab.  Same thing with id:3:initdefault:.  Any
> ideas?
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