From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 04:31:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18531 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 04:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.techno-link.com (ns.techno-link.com [212.36.0.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18523 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 04:31:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plamendp@ns.techno-link.com) Received: from techno-link.com (pool6-var.techno-link.com [212.36.1.197]) by mail.techno-link.com (8.9.0/8.8.602) with ESMTP id OAA00175 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:33:21 +0300 Posted-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:33:21 +0300 Message-ID: <35E7E41B.3AE6B5AF@techno-link.com> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:20:59 +0300 From: Plamen Petkov Reply-To: plamendp@techno-link.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: locked out by xdm References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason C. Wells wrote: > 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. > ...and give us /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors && ~/.xsession-errors -- ** !REMOVE NOSPAM! ** Plamen D. Petkov FBIS First Bulgarian Internet Store E-mail: mailto:plamendp@NOSPAM.bgstore.com ICQ# : 2214327 FBIS : http://www.bgstore.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message