Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:32:47 +0200 From: "Ian Barnes" <ian@cerebellum.za.net> To: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@comcast.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Launch X at boot Message-ID: <008d01c2cd3c$9c556850$6f00a8c0@pharmmain> References: <20030205111336.B19637-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@comcast.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:26 PM Subject: Launch X at boot > I know this is probably an obvious question, but so far my attempts at > writing a script to do this have failed. > > I would like to launch X windows at boot, and have it query an xdm server. > I attempted to put a script with: > > #/bin/sh > /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query whitetower > > in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory. When I boot, though, I get nothing - > not even error messages. I did check that the file permissions were set > (700) - and it works if I run it from the command line (after logging in) > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks, > Seth Henry > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Hi, In your /etc/ttys file.. make the last one : ttyv(whatever your last one is) "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Reboot, and then it should start xdm... if you are running KDE, you could use KDM, and i dont know about gnome and all the others, but im sure they have loaders aswell. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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