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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!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: which FAQ or how to set up X to run automatically? Date: 21 Oct 1995 09:59:55 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <46agar$1jb@times.tfs.com> References: <DGp96t.FA0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <4687ke$9ns@kaleka.seanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com 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? > > 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. you can always drop back by using <CTL><ALT><Fn> if you haven't logged in on those screens the users are going to eventually have to hit <ALT>F4 or get bored to death with the Login: prompt (I have run a couple of X servers at once on differnt vt's neat!) (just start a second one after you've started one and it appears on F5) unix:1.0 rather than 0.0.. :)