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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:29:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disappearing keyboard 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422112424.16563A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > > This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs.
> > 
> > Why?  It's always worked just great for me and I've had it like
> > this for over 3 years.
> 
> "Because if your X server crashes it just loops forever"
> 
> At least that's the pathetic excuse that I've heard most often.

And not even correct.  If *xdm* immediately crashes, it will loop
a couple times but then init notices something is amiss and stops
trying to start it.

If your *X server* crashes, xdm restarts it. Whether you started
xdm int /etc/ttys or by some other mechanism has nothing to do
with it with this behavior. 



-john


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