From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 16 22:17:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17042 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17035 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:17:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA06425; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:16:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Plamen Petkov cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Default to starting xdm from /etc/ttys? In-Reply-To: <35D55931.C9D73ECC@techno-link.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Plamen Petkov wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > > | ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > > > > > > It's a religious issue. It works one way on some systems and other ways > > on others. We just had a big argument about this, see the mail archives. > > > > Using "off" doesn't work for me, i.e. doesn't start the xdm after boot up. I > just got normal text consoles. However, with ON, i.e. > > ttyv3 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > runs fine. Is this normal ? Of course! 'off' disables the line to init. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message