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

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Author: Jim
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Subject: id:5:initdefault: in /etc/inittab on RH8
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On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 10:14, David Mandala wrote:
> 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?
>=20
> 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.
> >=20
> > 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?


Init 3 is full multi-user mode (without X11), init 5 is X11 mode (which
implies multi-user)

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