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Hi,

I am trying to get my Redhat 5.2 to boot directly into X. I believe that I
have to edit my /etc/inittab file for this to use runlevel 5:

id:5:initdefault:

And towards the end of the file there is this line that starts xdm in
runlevel 5:

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon

However, this is not working for me. When I reboot, I still get the login
prompt on the console. It never switches into X.

I also tried running gdm (part of gnome) instead of xdm, with no luck either.

Can anyone help me out?

On a related note, when I run gnome, I can't seem to logout. There is a
logout command and button in gnome, but it does nothing on my system. The
window manager enlightenment does not seem to have an exit session feature
similar to that of WindowMaker. The only way I can presently logout is to
forcefully kill the enlightenment and gnome processes and return to
console.

Thanks,

Ujwal

        You can also just spawn xdm or gdm manually in some fashion.
        (like sticking it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local) Alternately, you can
        just use the normal login prompt and have the .login & .cshrc
        type config files manage startup of X.

Quote:

>On a related note, when I run gnome, I can't seem to logout. There is a
>logout command and button in gnome, but it does nothing on my system. The
>window manager enlightenment does not seem to have an exit session feature
>similar to that of WindowMaker. The only way I can presently logout is to
>forcefully kill the enlightenment and gnome processes and return to
>console.

        Try using control-alt-backspace in such instances.

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