From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 17:37:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 000FE16A4BF for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CA544001 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HM7006BJIY9AG@smtp06.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 02:34:57 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h940bcQL066348;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h940bbjr066347; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 02:37:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 02:37:37 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200310021732.02932.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com> To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com Message-id: <20031004003737.GB56780@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <200310021732.02932.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDM and FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:37:27 -0000 > Hey all, > > I'm a huge nut of the CLI, but my girlfriend is not. I've gone through a > bunch of the documentation on > http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/kdm/Configuring-your-system-for-kdm.html > and have gotten as far as test whether I can run > > grog# kdm -nodeamon > > and I get a KDE login screen after a few breif seconds. Now, how do I > implement this so that kdm initalizes at boot so my gf can use my FreeBSD > system without having to type what is, in her words, some "arcane fucking > command from the old world of DOS." Any script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ gets started at boot time. A script usaly has a "echo -n 'script name'" that print a message at boot time. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/