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

Mike Starke plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:26:46 -0500


On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:14:06AM -0700, 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?
/_
/_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?
/_> ---------------------------------------------------

How are the runlevels defined? I know differant dists have differant runlevels
defined.

-Mike