From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 10:40:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9828C37B9BB for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 10:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dheller1@rochester.rr.com) Received: from mailout2.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.165]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 13:37:34 -0400 Received: from rochester.rr.com ([24.24.34.106]) by mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 13:29:07 -0400 Message-ID: <390F12FD.4E02B572@rochester.rr.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 13:40:13 -0400 From: David Heller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question. References: <001501bfb3ee$87a3cab0$4ef00404@wildkat> <20000502135335.A1459@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > Cannot boot directly to X? Did you create xsession in your home directory? > > If not, please do. > > Eh? Why should that help his system boot into X? > > > > However I can not boot directly to X. Which file do I need to modify to > > > start X after init time (my /etc/defaults/rc.conf correctly included a > > > local_startup option pointing to rc.d and the file in there contains xdm > > but > > > that doesn't work.) > > What does the file in rc.d say? Does it include the full path and so > on? > > I have a line at the bottom of /etc/rc.local, that works > fine for me. In fact I feel its preferable since it ensures that > xdm/equivalent starts after everything else. I don't know the > official solution, though. > > Rahul. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I edited /etc/ttys and uncommented the line with xdm in it an turned it on. I did try starting Xdm with rc.local first however I could not do anything useful as It would not take any keyboard input!! Also you must have an .xsession file for EVERY user who will log in. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message