Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:26:10 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, maral@webnet.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951127142514.7500C-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511271510.JAA28202@solaria.sol.net>
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On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > 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. If it's such a crock, would you mind expounding on the _right_ method? I would use xdm if I trusted it... > > ... Joe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net > Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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