Date: 20 Dec 2002 00:03:02 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Daniel Schrock <dschrock@speakeasy.net> Cc: Dmitrii PapaGeorgio <dmitrii@woh.rr.com>, FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GDM question - anyone got it to work? Message-ID: <1040360581.2280.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3E02A186.50302@speakeasy.net> References: <M%wM9.343$%3.193060@twister.neo.rr.com> <3E02A186.50302@speakeasy.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 23:50, Daniel Schrock wrote: > Dmitrii PapaGeorgio wrote: > > Running FreeBSD 4.7 - I configured etc/ttys to point to GDM but the > > screen says it can't find the config file when it first boots. Am I > > missing something here? > > > > Thanks- > > > > yea, don't use /etc/ttys for this. > > cd /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d > cp gdm.sh.sample gdm.sh > ls -la #verify perms for executable > > then start it up: ./gdm.sh start > > it will start at boot after this. This is only for gdm2. For gdm, you should be able to launch it from /etc/ttys with the line: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure The config files are stored in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm. If this directory doesn't exist for some reason, you should reinstall the gdm port/package. Joe > > .daniel.schrock > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+AqSFb2iPiv4Uz4cRAueyAJ9wRcPqR2vl5aBBq5rBs8mvkx1ZVQCfd95O 8PeIs07b6AQoA86iACyrzEc= =lPub -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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