From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 3 15:33:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12487 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from puck.nether.net (irvingp@puck.nether.net [204.42.254.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12479 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from irvingp@puck.nether.net) Received: (from irvingp@localhost) by puck.nether.net (8.9.0.Beta5/8.7.3) id SAA02252; Sun, 3 May 1998 18:33:12 -0400 Message-ID: <19980503183312.A1996@puck.nether.net> Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:33:12 -0400 From: Irving Popovetsky To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: remote xdm problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy, At home, I have networked together my a 486 with 32 megs of ram running FreeBSD-stable, which doesnt do anything but run PPP and ipfw to my NT box. I got the idea to set up my NT box with eXceed(from hummingbird communications), which is arguably the best commercial X-server package available for windows, to run an xdm query over to the FreeBSD box. well, everything works great and dandy.... except for one problem. the xsession dies after about a minute or two .... usually without even an error message. I have tried with different wm's, everything from fvwm to afterstep to kde ..... and I tried messing with the SYSV stuff (SHM, etc) .... but that makes it die even faster sometimes. at first I suspected the NT machine to be at fault (naturally :), so I tried different X servers (but only x-win40 from starnet communications did xdm queries) ... but I managed to replicate the problem, so I'm wondering if the FreeBSD box is doing something funny. note: xdm is being started from /etc/ttys, like it is in the standard install: ttyv7 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure any suggestions? Thanks a million, -- -Irving Popovetsky ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Assistant Pioneer High School - Webmaster http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message