From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 11:53:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD9637B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7UIrjs27055; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:53:45 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: michael.j.lewis@db.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: simple stuff Message-ID: <20000830115345.R18862@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <8525694B.004B97F8.00@nysmtp4001.svc.btco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <8525694B.004B97F8.00@nysmtp4001.svc.btco.com>; from michael.j.lewis@db.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:45:39PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * michael.j.lewis@db.com [000830 06:50] wrote: > > All, > > New to freeBSD, so please excuse the simple questions, can anyone help..... > > i. Under Linux I can set entries in /etc/inittab to automatically > start the XServer and have a graphical login, I understand freeBSD > uses the rc*.conf files, but does anyone know what setting/file > needs to be changed to have a default graphical login? Please wrap lines at 70 characters. See /etc/ttys, there should be a line in there: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure switch the 'off' to 'on' and kill -1 init. > ii. General unix. I can write a process that will listen on a > socket, I'd like to be able to telnet to the process a la sendmail > (telnet localhost smtp ) , will a telnet client connect to any > listening socket and just re-route the stin/stdout to/from that > socket ... or should use the force on the senmail code ... any help > appreciated. You might want to look at /usr/ports/net/netcat/ and /usr/ports/net/netpipes/, they're pretty useful for this kind of stuff. best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message