Hi All,

I was going through a UNIX system administration handbook and while reading found the below sentence

"init is also responsible for spawning graphical login systems such as xdm,gdm, or dtlogin if the system is et up to use them"

My question is,how to verify on a UNIX machine,whether the system is been setup to use any of the above mentioned graphical logion systems.

Thanks for the help

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

Case of dt:
You should see a dtlogin process running on the box launched by root...
e.g (HP-UX)

#HP-UX:
ant:/home/vbe $ ps -ef|grep dt|grep root
    root  2443  2421  0  Apr 29  ?         0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin
    root  2421     1  0  Apr 29  ?         0:00 /sbin/sh /usr/dt/bin/dtrc
    root 20360  1115  0  Jul 20  ?         0:00 /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserver
#AIX:
 $  ps -ef|grep dt|grep root
    root 1134804  168038   0   Oct 14      -  0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin

ant:/home/vbe $ ll /sbin/rc3.d|grep dtl
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             23 Jun 23  2003 S990dtlogin.rc -> /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc

Hi vbe,

Thanks for the reply ......Can you please let me know,how I could verify the same on Linux Ubuntu ....

Once again thanks

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

ubuntu uses gnome. so look for "gdm" is running... and if you're logged in on your ubuntu machine to the desktop, you can be sure gdm is running. if you use remote login (ssh) you can use the above grep command, just with gdm...