How do I start/stop display manager

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:39 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 October 2005 09:59, V P wrote:
> > On 04/10/05, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at cbn.net.id> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > What is the service command to start/stop display manager in FC4?
> > > Something like 'service dm start'?
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > What you are looking for is called run levels.
> >
> > "init 3" for Text Mode
> > "init 5" for GUI
> 
> Oh I see. I guess it's quite different than Mandrake then.
> Because if I understand it correctly, if we do the init 3/5 command, it will 
> affect other services too, right? I mean, will other services be restarted if 
> I do init 3 from init 5?
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yes, they will shutdown per /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/Kxx-?????

and they will start up per /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/Sxx-?????

the prefdm is started on runlevel 5

tail -n 2 /etc/inittab
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

Craig


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