From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 11 21:39:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA09828 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 21:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA09812 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 21:39:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06863; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:38:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA01996; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:38:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:38:44 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711120538.WAA01996@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ted Spradley Cc: Wes Peters , Michael Knoll , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 and /tmp In-Reply-To: <199711120506.XAA03728@set.spradley.dyn.ml.org> References: <199711111558.IAA01571@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199711120506.XAA03728@set.spradley.dyn.ml.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In the FAQ it says: "Starting xdm via /etc/ttys is a Bad Thing. I > don't know why this crept into some README file." No explanation at > all of *why* it's a Bad Thing. I *hate* that. In defiance, I've been > starting xdm by listing it in my /etc/ttys file for years with no > noticeable ill effect. Can anyone tell me *why* it's a Bad Thing? It should be removed, and was based on a mis-understanding J'org had about how xdm 'did it's thing'. Nate