Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:24:27 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_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: <19980424092427.04738@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 09:12:36AM -0700 References: <23641.893249479@time.cdrom.com> <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 22 April 1998 at 9:12:36 -0700, 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. Is this pathetic, even if it's strictly not true? > Basically, if it works, don't screw with it. Starting it out of > /usr/local/etc/rc.local sucks by comparison. (Oh dear, I just borked X, > and xdm is confused. 'killall -9 xdm' and back it comes. Perfect > IMHO.) I think we're on the wrong forum here to understand why it's evil. I suggested it in "Installing and Running FreeBSD", and Jörg came down on me and pointed out this problem. Now if it happened to you or me (or even Jordan :-), we could solve the problem. Put somebody new to FreeBSD in front of the keyboard, and he's likely to get the screaming heebie-jeebies. There's a simple way to avoid the problem (start it from rc.local or xdm/Xservers), so why recommend this one? Of course, that certainly doesn't invalidate the "if it works, don't fix it". But that isn't what Dag-Erling was talking about. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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