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In article <nmivicipbq3.fsf@d716.maths.su.oz.au>,
	Rupert Littlewood <rupert@maths.usyd.edu.au> writes:

> mih@anu.edu.au (Martin Hofmann) writes:
> 
> 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)
>
Slackware 3.1 (and other releases) certainly have multiple rc files
rc.M rc.4 rc.inet[12] rc.local ... in the directory /etc/rc.d/
 
> 
>> 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.)
> 
Whoops, thanks for pointing that out, there definitely should be a 
colon at the end of the line.
# Default runlevel.
id:4:initdefault:

The new version of Slackware 3.1 uses 3 for the text login (default) and
4 for xdm.   For some reason they changed this from the previous version
where xdm was level 5.

Martin

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