Startup twice!

[endian]

In a terminal window, su to root, then type SystemStarter. The startup progress bar will appear, and the output will be logged to your terminal. Neat!

SystemStarter -nd will run SystemStarter but won't actually do anything

 

[scruffy]

It's probably not a very good idea to do that, unless you use the -nd option. SystemStarter doesn't check whether each service that is is starting up is already running, so you end up with two copies of a lot of servers and such. That is not a good situation, and can lead to files getting trampled.

Incidentally, do you know where the documentation for SystemStarter is? There is no man page for it...

 

[PhilippeHausler]

Im pretty sure that apple will never include a man page about SystemStarter because it is just the interface between darwin and the aqua interface of osx

But anyways, the way to start back into x is just to exit when you are logged in the command line prompt.