--- "adrian.wells" <adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk> wrote:
By the way, I've noticed that if you press F2 while the machine is booting (V9.0) it will offer the opertunity to log in at the prompt. This waits for several seconds before continuing to the graphical login screen. I would assume that this delay can be changed somewhere.
This "delay" is either the result of the slowness for the {x,g,w,k}dm init script to load, or as you say there is a delay. This delay will be defined in one of the top-level init scripts, most likely: /etc/rc.d/boot -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html