I don't know. I've used kde3 since 10.x and I can look back as far as 42.3 on running systems and see there is no displaymanager.pid. It has always been kdm.pid. If needed I can find the old drives and check 11.4 and 13.1.
I did get a kick out of checking line 203 in /usr/lib/X11/display-manager on 42.3:
# make sure to stop the running one (Bug #306035) if test -s $PIDFILELNK; then
On Tumbleweed: startproc -p $PIDFILE $DISPLAYMANAGER $XDMOPTIONS || rc_failed if rc_status ; then # when started up successfuly, use DMs PID file as ours ln -snf $PIDFILE $PIDFILELNK else # After a crash or a kill signal we may have # a wrong ownership of /dev/xconsole if test -x $DMDIR/TakeDevices ; then $DMDIR/TakeDevices else chown root:tty /dev/xconsole /dev/tty0 chmod 622 /dev/xconsole /dev/tty0 fi fi rc_status -v ;; The Line "ln -snf ....." should be interresting Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds@marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org