startup/stop init scripts for gdm/kdm

[Chris Spencer]

Due to repeated failures on freshly burned CD's I ended up doing a
minimal install and adding packages as I needed over the network.

I am curious about why startup scripts for /etc/init.d weren't packaged
with kdm or gdm when I added them.

Anyone have any ideas?

I can make them myself but just curious why they weren't created.

Are they part of another package?  Auto created by some other tool?

-Chris

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

[Sean Middleditch]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:53, Chris Spencer wrote:
> Due to repeated failures on freshly burned CD's I ended up doing a
> minimal install and adding packages as I needed over the network.
>
> I am curious about why startup scripts for /etc/init.d weren't packaged
> with kdm or gdm when I added them.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I can make them myself but just curious why they weren't created.
>
> Are they part of another package?  Auto created by some other tool?

kdm/gdm aren't started by the runlevel scripts, they're started by
inittab.  Last three lines of /etc/inittab on my system:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

(this selects between kdm/gdm/others using a system config option)
> -Chris
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin,
> Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
>
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[Chris Spencer]

Little more looking and it seems it is just staying at runlevel 3 on
bootup.

I can address this.

-Chris

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:53, Chris Spencer wrote:
> Due to repeated failures on freshly burned CD's I ended up doing a
> minimal install and adding packages as I needed over the network.
>
> I am curious about why startup scripts for /etc/init.d weren't packaged
> with kdm or gdm when I added them.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I can make them myself but just curious why they weren't created.
>
> Are they part of another package?  Auto created by some other tool?
>
> -Chris
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin,
> Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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[Chuck Wolber]

> I am curious about why startup scripts for /etc/init.d weren't packaged
> with kdm or gdm when I added them.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Because there are no startup and shutdown scripts for gdm/kdm. They're run 
out of /etc/inittab (check the bottom, specifically the runlevel 5 stuff).

-Chuck

[Bill Nottingham]

Chuck Wolber ([e-mail]) said:
> > I am curious about why startup scripts for /etc/init.d weren't packaged
> > with kdm or gdm when I added them.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Because there are no startup and shutdown scripts for gdm/kdm. They're run 
> out of /etc/inittab (check the bottom, specifically the runlevel 5 stuff).

Moreover, if you have it started from a init script, it will start
before all the mingettys run; gdm will start on tty2.

Bill