From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 11:22:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22616 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 11:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA22611 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 11:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from (ukonline.co.uk) [212.228.66.197] by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z4r9s-0002oF-00; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 18:22:33 +0000 Message-ID: <35CB4574.C9F4DC92@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 19:20:36 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting X References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew West wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Shapiro Vladimir wrote: > > > In what FreeBSD's boot files have I to make changes to start X during > > the boot? And how they should look like. > > This is already in the FAQ, but it isn't _terribly_ specific ;-) > > In /etc/rc.local: > > # put your local stuff here > echo -n 'xdm' > /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm > sleep 1 ^^^^^^^^^^When I tried this it just returns errors (non-fatal) about unrecognisedcommands. It works fine for me without. > echo '.' > > --mwest@cs.uct.ac.za > http://www.cs.uct.ac.za > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message