From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 13:52:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC9137B502; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA21577; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:45:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Volker Stolz" Cc: , , Subject: RE: X for login prompt? Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 16:50:28 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20001006161446.A8149@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wasn't the one who said to reboot. If you read my original post to the list, you'll see I just cut/pasted from someone else's advice. Even though I do use M$ products, I also use FreeBSD and Solaris. Personally, I'm not a fan of rebooting either. -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Volker Stolz }Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 10:15 AM }To: Otter }Cc: Ben_Calvert@amsinc.com; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; }freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Re: X for login prompt? } } }On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 06:37:26PM -0400, Otter wrote: }> }edit the file /etc/ttys and change this line: }> } }> }ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure }> } }> }to read: }> } }> }ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure }> }Then, after you've saved that file, reboot." } }A simple "kill -HUP 1" is sufficient to tell init to reconfigure. }How come everyone always wants to reboot these days :) }[Your quoting-style is ... strange?] }-- }Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP + S/MIME } } }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