From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 15 15: 1:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2E614F86 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from mailrelay.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.40]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20933; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:01:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with ESMTP id <0FI4005LCFU3PL@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:01:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:01:19 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin Subject: RE: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC In-reply-to: <199909151959.PAA22581@cs.rpi.edu> To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <0FI4005LDFU3PL@gkar.cc.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Sep-99 David E. Cross wrote: > We have a very hetergenous environment here (even among the FreeBSD > boxes). > Each PC tends to be just a little bit different. This expecially > causes > problems since we wish to have XDM on each machine on boot and have X > on a NFS partition. TO alleviate this we invented a simple Perl > script > to replace /usr/X11R6/bin/X to run the correct program on each > machine: Umm, you can edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to configure xdm to run say /usr/config/X (which would be stored on the local machiens hard drive) instead of /usr/X11R6/bin/X. This is a much simpler solution. :) (Just symlink /usr/config/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Whatever.) --- John Baldwin -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message