From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 5 10:39:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f20.hotmail.com [216.32.181.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFACF15388 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amybsd@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 65279 invoked by uid 0); 5 Jul 1999 17:39:14 -0000 Message-ID: <19990705173914.65278.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 24.29.199.198 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:39:14 PDT X-Originating-IP: [24.29.199.198] From: Amy Wennings To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Launching xdm at startup Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 12:39:14 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What's the proper way to start xdm at boot time? I created /usr/local/etc/rc.d/start_xdm.sh with this inside: #!/bin/sh xdm But it has two problems: 1) root doesn't get a proper environment - it can't find the sbin directory 2) my user account always gets xconsole running when it logs in. This doesn't happen if I log in as root and then run xdm _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message