i recently installed netatalk (AppleTalk software) on my Debian computer to use it as a file server and i got everything working perfectly about an hour and a half ago. my problem is that "AppleTalk services" takes a LONG time to start up, and unfortunately it is started after GDM, so i have no idea when it finishes except for knowing that a GDM login will fail until everything is started. anyways, all i want to do is make GDM (GNOME Display Manager) the LAST thing to start up, or at least come up after the AppleTalk stuff. so, how do i change the order?

Hmm, not to familliar with the startup files for debian, but if they are similar to Slackware or RedHat, check in the /etc/rc files, betting /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (or something very similar). Then look for the sequence number of the items, Sxxname (xx being the sequence number) and make sure that the AppleTalk number is smaller than the X-window sequence number. If debian does NOT use this configuration, this is null and void. Hope this helps, good luck.

ya, i changed S20gdm to S98gdm in rc5.d which seems to clear everything up. i actually stumbled onto the startup system working my way up from inspecting inittab until i figured out the startup stuff a few hours after i posted this, and i wanted to see if what i did was correct, so i just waited for a reply... THANKS!