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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:04:09 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de>
To:        ashworth@cs.montana.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xdm login
Message-ID:  <199706081604.SAA00418@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <3399B5DB.D9E7EF8F@spacehog.structured.net> from Justin Ashworth at "7. Jun. 97 19:26:19"

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It was Justin Ashworth who wrote:
> I login to my system via xdm when I boot my system. In other words, I
> never login on the console. I've noticed that when I do this and attempt
> to see who's on the system with 'w' or 'finger', I never show up. Is
> there some xdm configuration that would allow me to show up as logged
> in?

You need to start one xterm with -ls.
Either in your .xsession or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession.

Robert

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