From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 08:32:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20988 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:32:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20983 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA04981; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:38:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199606301538.LAA04981@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Getting back control of terminal To: fadorno@juno.com (Fred Adorno) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:38:11 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <19960630.035911.10326.0.fadorno@juno.com> from Fred Adorno at "Jun 30, 96 03:59:11 am" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Fred Adorno wrote... > I installed XFree86 and configured the /etc/ttys so that the xterm would > come up on boot. Now it appears that I can't move the mouse without > causing the window to disappear, but what I really want to do is diable > XFree from coming up on boot. Is there a way or do I have to reinstall > everything again? Boot from floppy? > No problem :-). Boot in single-user mode. When you get the boot: prompt, type '-s' (without the quotes, of course) and your system will come up in single-user mode and you can re-edit 'rc.local' (or wherever you put the command. Then exit your shell and the system completes its boot. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key