From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 07:10:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA05800 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 07:10:00 -0800 Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA05795 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 07:09:56 -0800 Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA04333; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 09:09:53 -0600 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id JAA28202; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 09:10:48 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199511271510.JAA28202@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 27 Nov 95 9:10:46 CST Cc: maral@webnet.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511270854.JAA04879@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 27, 95 09:54:47 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1470 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. That's not the problem (I actually do an "fsck -y /dev/homepartition" after launching xdm which takes longer than a few seconds)... xdm is running just dandy and X comes up "fine" - but the kbd isn't there. Now if only there was a way to do the equivalent of "fsck -p /dev/somepartition" :-) > > 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. Ditto. I don't like being forced to launch it and hate having to edit a file and send signals to init rather than just kill the little pig to disable it. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847