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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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