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mih@anu.edu.au (Martin Hofmann) writes:

> 
> In article <53jpk7$2mr@grivel.une.edu.au>,
> 	dbentley@metz.une.edu.au (Daniel) writes:
> > I am new to using Linux, and have a few questions. If someone could point
> > me to the apropriate documentation for answers, or tell me an answer in
> > the newsgroup, they would have my eternal gratitude... I am using
> > Slackware 3.1.0, which I downloaded from the net.
> > 
> > 1. Where are the files that are used when booting up - that tell the
> >    machine what to do next (like load the deamons) etc?
> > 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.*

I'm not certain but I think Slackware comes only with plain old
/etc/rc instead of the rc[1-5].d levels. That's easier to start with
but harder to maintain.
(maybe recent Slackware releases are better)

> >
> > 2. How do I modify my path perminantly?
> >
> Put a "setenv PATH ..." command in your .cshrc.  See any good introductory
> Unix book for info about csh and initialization files.

Note that the commands/files are different if you use bash/ksh/zsh/.. etc, 
and you can set the default for all users by changing the appropriate
lines in the appropriate files in the /etc directory (eg /etc/profile for
bash)

> > 
> > 3. I have XFree86, and was wondering about the following - how do I get it
> >    to work so that more than one person can login / or so that upon
> >    bootup, it will load automatically, and all I have to do is swap to the
> >    new terminal?
> > 
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  You can tell Linux to run xdm
> on boot by setting default runlevel in the /etc/inittab file to 4 ie.
> id:4:initdefault
> xdm is an X-windows based login and display manager\

You should check the inittab file to see if 4 is the right number for
slackware's init ; on my redhat system it is 5.
(Does there need to be another colon after initdefault? I can't
remember but inittab is a bad place to have errors.)

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Rupert Littlewood                         Graduate Student in Maths 
rupert@maths.usyd.edu.au                          Sydney University