Sorry, I forgot to CC MUUG.

-Montana

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [RndTbl] TTY1 and Starting X Windows From: "Montana Quiring" montanaq@gmail.com Date: Tue, April 18, 2006 3:05 pm To: "Bill Reid" billreid@shaw.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for The reply Bill.

I tried changing inittab again and this time around it lets me start X after I log in. I miht have goofed something last time.

Because these machines are in a lab I want them to log into X automatically like they were doing, and I don't want the students to have access to the command line.

Do I need to install a login-manager?

-Montana

"When I give, I give myself.” -Walt Whitman

On Tue, April 18, 2006 12:08 pm, Bill Reid said:

Montana Quiring wrote:

...

and that solves to problem of getting to a shell but now X Windows doesn't start.

Do you mean that issuing the startx does not work?

...

I don't fully understand what the orig line is doing and I think that's my problem.

It is setting stdout and stdout to tty1 and redirecting stderr to stdout.

-- Bill