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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 06:25:03 -0600
From: "Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD]" <freebsd@sasknow.com>
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To: Iain Templeton <iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au>,
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Subject: Re: xdm for remote hosts only?
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Iain Templeton wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> 
> > Hi everybody...
> >
> > Just wondering if there's something I missed in the XDM manpage that will
> > allow XDM to run in the background as an XDM server for remote hosts only,
> > and NOT start up an X session on the local computer, nor require logins
> > for X sessions on the local computer.
> >
> > I realize that an X server must be running for remote logins to work.
> > However, what I would like to see happen is for the X server to start,
> > then switch me back to my terminal screen.  (Without having to hit the
> > obligatory Ctrl-Alt-F# key combination :-)
> >
> No, you don't have to run an X server at all. Look at the file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, and you should see down at the bottom a
> line telling xdm to start a server on the local host. If you comment this
> out you should be ok.
> 
> I don't even have an X server binary on this computer, and everything runs
> ok.
> 
> Iain.

Ha!  Well...  That was certainly an easy fix.

So easy, in fact... I'm almost sorry I asked :-)

Thank you muchly.

- Ryan


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