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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!brutus.bright.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: which FAQ or how to set up X to run automatically? Date: 21 Oct 1995 20:18:58 -0700 Organization: she lost all her innocence Lines: 40 Sender: nawaz921@crater.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imburaqk7x.fsf@crater.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <DGp96t.FA0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: crater.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca's message of Thu, 19 Oct 1995 14:20:52 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.13 In article <DGp96t.FA0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten Whimster) writes: $ I have FreeBSD 2.0.5 installed, and want to set it up to run X $ automatically, while still allowing me to drop back to text-only mode. $ How do I go about doing this, or which file do I read thast explains $ this? Okay, this is what I've done. I _can't_ remember exactly which of the XFree distribution files I've installed, but I'm guessing I got almost everything (I had a lot of disk space). a) I got X, and xdm working. I didn't have to frob /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/*; you may need to. b) I edited /etc/ttys. Look at ttyv1: # @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89 # # name getty type status comments # # This entry needed for asking password when init goes to single-user mode # If you want to be asked for password, change "secure" to "insecure" here console none unknown off secure # ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -auth -nodaemon" xterm on secure #ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure c) I reread /etc/ttys (kill -1 1, or reboot). $ I need to be able to drop back to text-mode while root, but I would $ like to prevent other users from doing this. Basically, I would like $ xdm or something to run magically, I guess. I thought there was something in XF86Config for that, but I can't find it in the man page (for XFree 3.11). I'm not sure...