From owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 11:31:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0B037B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 11:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.piqnet.org (adsl-66-125-235-59.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.125.235.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CF343F85 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 11:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from thor.piqnet.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thor.piqnet.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4TIUmXq020314; Thu, 29 May 2003 11:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by thor.piqnet.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4TIUjHW020311; Thu, 29 May 2003 11:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thor.piqnet.org: joelh set sender to joelh@gnu.org using -f Sender: joelh@piqnet.org To: zel@free.fr References: <1053693153.3ece14e13ea46@imp.free.fr> From: Joel Ray Holveck Precedence: first-class Date: 29 May 2003 11:30:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1053693153.3ece14e13ea46@imp.free.fr> Message-ID: <87d6i1mwq3.fsf@thor.piqnet.org> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd and XFree question X-BeenThere: freebsd-config@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 List-Id: Installation and Configuration List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:31:04 -0000 > Does it exist a way to start a xdm process without the complete > XFree ? Sure... you'll want to install the XFree86-4-clients port, which includes xdm. Then adjust your Xservers file (and whatever other files you need to), and you're ready to go. You may want to install fonts and run a font server as well; that way, your clients all have access to a variety of fonts without needing to replicate them. > The objectiv is to purpose the x environment to users of the lan and use no > more memory/ressources on the server since no users should use it directly. An idle X server doesn't take much in terms of resources. (top shows a lot, but most of that is the mapped memory to the video card.) But if you don't need it, you don't need it. Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped