Does headless X require runlevel 5?

[Kenneth Porter]

On Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:32 PM +1000 David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> 
wrote:

>> This part doesn't seem correct. Is that to do with /etc/X11 and/or
>> /etc/gdm configuration alone? Or something else?
> Two further bits of config are required at minimum:
> 1. in: /etc/sysconfig/vncserver , example is given.
> 2. firewall: allow the tcp port (5900+) the vncserver number you chose in
> 1 to come through.

Additionally, if you want to connect using a conventional X server, you 
need to run the display manager in runlevel 3. On my FC2 system the 
following line in /etc/inittab starts the DM in runlevel 5. You need to 
change it to 3 if you want to run the DM on a headless system.

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon