On Wednesday 06 February 2002 22.04, JW wrote:
At 07:03 PM 2/6/2002 +0100, you wrote:
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 18.09, JW wrote:
Hello,
I just made a brand-new installation of 7.3 and one of the first things I did after the install was open yast and set all my favorite 'rc' settings, one of this is DISPLAYMANAGER=console.
This question made me RTFS a little. It seems in 7.3 SuSEconfig doesn't touch the runlevel setting at all. Many thanks to whoever it was that removed it. Now it is possible to have user defined run levels again without having to set CHECK_INITTAB to no.
I'm a little confused by what you're saying here. I would think that CHECK_INITTAB should be set to yes for yast to modify it and indeed that's what it's set o - and it's still not modifying it. Are you saying I need to set it to "no" (that would seem backwards to me)?
No, I was saying that I don't normally want YaST/SuSEconfig to change the runlevel settings on me. in versions up to and including 7.2 it would do this every time SuSEconfig ran, so I habitually set CHECK_INITTAB to no. Your question made me look and found that this behaviour has changed thankfully.
Setting DISPLAYMANAGER=console has the same effect as setting it to DonaldDuck, in other words if you're in runlevel 5 you'll get the default display manager, which is xdm.
Weird. On 7.2 and older is used to take care of the runlevel as well.
Yep. Not anymore.
The runlevel now is only set by YaST internally, by going to System Configuration -> Login and setting "graphical" or "Ascii". Unless you prefer to edit inittab manually, that is.
I don't really care if I do have to set it by hand but I wonder why on earth SuSE messed with something that used to work perfectly fine?
I don't think it worked that well. There was no way to have SuSEconfig run on inittab if you had set up localized run levels. Using runlevel 4 (for instance) to have your own stuff can be useful and you don't have to delete/edit pre-defined runlevels, but it doesn't fit into the "either 5 or 3" philosophy of previous versions. I'm glad it's changed regards Anders