From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 06:16:19 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 9B24E37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:16:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFB343F93 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:16:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from makeworld.com ([12.15.124.131]) by makeworld.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5RDGEuI087444; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:16:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Message-ID: <3EFC4361.5040506@makeworld.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:15:13 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dan@slightlystrange.org References: <200306262240.26449.racerx@makeworld.com> <200306270819.h5R8J1uI086429@makeworld.com> <200306270658.45801.racerx@makeworld.com> <20030627131044.GB73549@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20030627131044.GB73549@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kdm on bootup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:16:20 -0000 Daniel Bye wrote: >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. >>> >>> >>Odd, on my 4.8 box - I did this. Didn't/dosn't work. Unless instead of just >>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 > > Ahhh, my bad,. I didn't set the "off" to "on". Thanks much to all that offered me answers on this one. Chris >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 > > > -- Best regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000