Re: Linux Server Newbie Question

In article <slrnegjn90.url.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ewan Mac Mahon <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday, 14 September, Colin McKinnon wrote:
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If thats OK, exit from the GUI (or restart your box if necessary) and then
try changing to runlevel 5 - as root type in

telinit 5

This should start up a graphical login (xdm, gdm or kdm).

That's a RedHatism, picked up by some of the other RPM distros;

ISTR it's actually a SysV-ism, though it's a long time since I used it
and never on a box that actually had a GUI !

Nick
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