runlevels

[Steve Luzynski <sluzynsk sound net>]

On Thu, 13 May 1999 12:12:18 James Green wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if off-topic, but this maybe due to gnome, I don't know.

Probably you said 'yes' when RH6 asked you if you wanted your system to start up
in X. 

> When I boot my machine, it brings up a graphical login screen. I have set
> the runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab (see below). Can anyone see why runlevel
> 5 is therefore being invoked all the time??? RH6
[snip]
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> # xdm is now a separate service
> x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

the:3 on this line means to run this in runlevel 3 instead of 5 as you
are expecting. If you change it to a 5 you should be fine.

-Steve