[H-GEN] Graphical Login

[Robert Stanford]

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On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:35, David Munn wrote:

> Question is how or what file do i edit to get the graphical (auto) login to 
> work.....at the moment when it comes to the Login under the bootup it doest 
> go on to start X but stops until i put in the login and password and when i 
> get the prompt i put in KDM to start the X and KDE.....it should go from the 
> login promt direct to loading the X and then the login screen for KDE..
> 

The mother? of all processes is init. Look at /etc/inittab and
specifically for the line

id:2:initdefault:

In your case you most likely want to change the 2 (or whatever it is in
your case) to a five.
This changes your runlevel at boot time to 5 which in the case of Redhat
should give you a graphical login.

You can check this by typing the command 'runlevel' and seeing what it
returns. If it is other than 5 then type in  'init 5' which will take
you there.

If you look further down the initab file you should see the line that
starts your display manager at runlevel 5. 

Al this is assuming that Redhat still starts the display manager from
inittab.

-- 
Robert Stanford <rob at rotapile.com>


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