From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 19:16:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28500 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28483 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id TAA29124; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:15:54 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id TAA18086; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:11:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: John Derk cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: locked out by xdm In-Reply-To: <35E70CDE.BCCD81B8@infoserve.net> 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 Fri, 28 Aug 1998, John Derk wrote: >Now when I boot up, I get a login window, into which I enter my login >name and passwd. The problem is that I've inadvertently created some >kind of loop: Everytime I enter my login name and passwd, I am returned >to the same login window. How do I fix this? Read 'man X' and 'man xdm'. You probably have to create a .xsession file in your home directory. This file must be executable. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message