From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 06:10:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA9B37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc4-cmbg1-4-cust87.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [80.6.127.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A7143FD7 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:10:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19Vt00-000Jnt-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:10:44 +0100 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:10:44 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030627131044.GB73549@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <200306262240.26449.racerx@makeworld.com> <200306270819.h5R8J1uI086429@makeworld.com> <200306270658.45801.racerx@makeworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306270658.45801.racerx@makeworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Scanner: exiscan *19Vt00-000Jnt-00*vUOgbeXux.E* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Subject: Re: kdm on bootup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:10:52 -0000 --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0500, Chris wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 03:18 am, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > > On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote: > > > Hiya - > > > > > > What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what > > > might that line look like. > > > > The file you have to change is /etc/ttys > > > > The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this: > > > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > > > > So you probably just have to replace "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" with > > the path to kdm plus options you want to give. >=20 > Odd, on my 4.8 box - I did this. Didn't/dosn't work. Unless instead of ju= st=20 > using tty8, I add that to 1 - 7 perhaps? No - did you also change "off" to "on"? Tell your kernel to reread /etc/ttys (among others): # kill -HUP 1 and, provided you got your command line right, {k,x}dm will start. Your character terminals will still be available by hitting CTRL-ALT-Fn. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+/EJUhvzwOpChvo8RAlWzAKCImF26hyq8GKszZs8ASZUg/9SENACaAvR6 96Adn0SCGvKF8XenY7c3LBE= =uEJN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--