From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 1:22: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9155337B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62FA43E81 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8K8M1b7010273; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:22:01 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8K8M0AQ010272; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:22:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:22:00 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: James Dean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE and KDM issues still Message-ID: <20020920082200.GA10243@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:52:59AM -0400, James Dean wrote: > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure > > I keep getting these errors messages in my logs: > Sep 7 13:00:28 bsdguru kdm_config[12241]: Unknown command line option > 'ttyv8' > Sep 7 13:00:28 bsdguru kdm[12243]: Can't lock pid file /var/run/kdm.pid, > anothe > r xdm is running (pid 281) You need to change the ttyv8 line to: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Your current setting is trying to spawn multiple copies of kdm, all of which (aside from the first one) are failing because the first one is running. The "Unknown command line option", you can't do anything about, so just ignore it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message