Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 09:54:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: maral@webnet.com.au (Peter Marelas) Cc: jgreco@solaria.sol.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( Message-ID: <199511270854.JAA04879@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951125050344.184A-100000@jazzy.phase-one.com.au> from "Peter Marelas" at Nov 25, 95 05:06:10 am
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As Peter Marelas wrote: > > > What happened: I put xdm as the last entry in /etc/rc.local on a 486DX/33 > > with 32MB RAM, Fahrenheit 1280 VGA card, running 2.0.5R. Put a "sleep 2" (or some other activity) behind, in order to allow xdm to properly daemonize itself. Otherwise, the rc shell will exit before xdm changed its session, and consequently kill xdm halfways while launching the Xserver. > The README in XF86312 says to start xdm from a tty in /etc/ttys > > The easiest way to automatically start the display manager on boot is > to add a line in /etc/ttys to start it on one of the unoccupied > virtual terminals: > > > ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure I wholeheartedly disagree with this method. It's a crock. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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