On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:39:03 +0200, Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> ray enlightened us with:
>> I've been looking through the documentation, but I can't find how to
>> have startup not ask me for a ctrl-d or login for maintainance when
>> the bloody thing starts up. I've got kde, etc, working, and I don't
>> need that anymore.
>
> Do a filesystem check and shut down properly next time.
>
> Sybren

1. I always shut down properly. There is no indication of any error
condition, just the message about login for maintainance or do ctrl-d.
I've not seen similar actions from other distros even on the rare occasion
that shutdown is not clean.

2. If I had known they were trying to follow MS in that regard, I might
never have started this experiment.