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Subject: Re: Start gnome's gdm at once
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Cam wrote:

> How do you start gnome's at once, without going to the command prompt and 
> doing 'gdm'?
# cd /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
# mv gdm.sh.sample gdm.sh

All scripts in this (and other directories called rc.d) will be 
executed during system start, if their name ends on .sh .

See also
# man rc.d

Regards,

Uli.
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