From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 10:52:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3F515630 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA00498; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:50:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:50:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907291750.MAA00498@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: xdm In-Reply-To: <37A09297.345C96F5@Mlink.NET> References: <37A09297.345C96F5@Mlink.NET> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike writes: > I've tried configuring xdm like they say in the faq and handbook > In /etc/rc.conf.local I added: echo " xdm"; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm > and in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers I added: :0 local > /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt03 > > I reboot my box I get the xdm login prompt and I type my username and > passwd, when I press enter it seems like xdm restarts agin asking > username and passwd over again .. and it keeps on doing it over and over > .. > > what did I miss ? > > thanks > Mike > > Check the xdm error log file, but I bet one of the scripts does not have the execute bit set. -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message