From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 15:15:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA20096 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:15:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20083 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA11063 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 07:14:45 +0800 Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:26:38 GMT From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: <01I1ITETB0OI8WVYPA@POMONA.EDU> Subject: Re: XDM and log in prompts... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk JOHN (JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU) wrote: : I have a few questions, hope someone can answer them. First is, when I : reboot my machine, FreeBSD always fails to supply the password prompt : the first time someone tries to log in after reboot. AFter that first time, : no problems until I reboot again. What would be causing this? Not sure what you mean here ... how far into the bootup cycle do you get? : Second, in the rc.local file, how would I start XDM up only as a daemon, : so that it will accept connections from other terminals, but not start : up my Xserver on the console? I looked in the manual pages, and didnt : see anything. Have a look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm for the file Xservers. Comment out the line: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | |