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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: help needed with X386
In-Reply-To: grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de's message of Fri, 7 Aug 1992 08:26:16 GMT
Message-ID: <RICH.92Aug10133742@kappa.Rice.edu>
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
References: <1992Aug7.032219.4649@newshub.sdsu.edu>
	<4UT5PRN@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:37:42 GMT
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In article <4UT5PRN@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de (Stefan Grefen) writes:
   In article <1992Aug7.032219.4649@newshub.sdsu.edu>, boyns@newshub.sdsu.edu (Mark
   Boyns) writes:
   [ Stuff deletet ]
   |> Also, when I try an use xdm it complains about not being able to create/lock
   |> the pid file, even when the file does not exist before it creates it.
   |> 
   The pid file must exist with mode 0666. This seems to be a bug in 386BSD.

xdm has a workaround for this bug in the next release, but for the
meantime 'touch /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid' will workaround it.
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