From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 04:22:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA26494 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 04:22:12 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA26474 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 04:21:45 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA18106; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:21:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA05591; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:21:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA04879; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 09:54:48 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511270854.JAA04879@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( To: maral@webnet.com.au (Peter Marelas) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 09:54:47 +0100 (MET) Cc: jgreco@solaria.sol.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Peter Marelas" at Nov 25, 95 05:06:10 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 930 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)