From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 16:40:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B974737B719 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1S0e8a51398; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:40:08 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:40:08 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: bsd-freak@mbox.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Straight Into X Message-ID: <20010228134008.A51133@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:27:45AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:27:45AM +1100, bsd-freak@mbox.com.au wrote: > Hi Everyone.... > > Anyone know how I can get my FreeBSD 4.2 workstation to boot straight > into X (without typing in startx). On Linux this is done by making it > go into runlevel 5 but I'm not to sure how to do it on FreeBSD, You can edit /etc/ttys, and change the line containing: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure to: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message