description "Starts the Gnome Display Manager" start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=5 and started messagebus # if you have haldaemon present as well: #start on pld.sysinit-done and started messagebus and started haldaemon #stop on pld.shutdown-started stop on starting rc RUNLEVEL=[!5] respawn respawn limit 10 120 exec /usr/sbin/gdm