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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X11R6 and xdm Date: 31 Oct 1995 11:03:42 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <474s9u$bfb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DH0o9F.27s@eskimo.com> <470sm1$qv9@electra.saaf.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit G|ran Hasse <gorhas@electra.saaf.se> wrote: >All you realy need is a entry in /etc/ttys. Something like.. > >ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodeamon" xterm on secure Why the heck do all people here recommend running xdm -nodaemon based on /etc/ttys??? IMHO, there's no good reason. Just simply start it off your rc.local *without* the -nodaemon. (Perhaps add a sleep 2 to allow it to properly daemonize itself before the `rc' shell terminates.) This way, you can even finally get rid of the X server (by typing Ctrl-R at the xdm login window). This is virtually impossible when launching it from /etc/ttys. I personally prefer launching it explicitly, btw. I've got a dummy login called `xdm' that starts it. But that's a matter of taste. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)