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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:00:03 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, stanb@awod.com
Subject:   Re: OK, where did rc.local go? 
Message-ID:  <199903150500.WAA28622@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <9903142117.aa15215@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <6023.921383704@zippy.cdrom.com> <9903142117.aa15215@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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> > > 	And whats the "right way" to start the xdm task now?
> > 
> > I always start mine from /etc/ttys, but others scream that this is
> > evil.  I don't care.
> 
> Last time I tried this it was horribly broken. Worked fine for most
> things but I had xterms doing indirect xdmcp to the machine. Xdm
> just forked as fast as it could and the xterms never got a chooser.
> I presume it is a bug in xdm -nodaemon, but I didn't have time to go
> find it. This was in October - YMMV.

That "can't happen" as init make sure xdm can't fork too fast w/out
disabling itself.  Unless it happened that the "xdm" binary had a bug in
it that caused 'nodaemon' to be ignored, which would cause the inferior
xdm process to fork un-beknownst to the original xdm process.


Nate


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