Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:16:53 -0600 (CST) From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sync on halt, xdm config and CDROM question Message-ID: <9601301616.AA02863@kermit.acs.uswest.com>
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Hi, I've got a few things. First good news. A month or so ago, I wrote in with a problem of sync failing on halt or reboot. Sometimes it would say that a process wouldn't die. Well, investigation showed that to be apache (0.85), killing it before halting and everything works fine. I haven't had time to try 1.0, but will soon. Now, my questions. 1) My next problem was getting xdm to let me log in without the account having a password (home machine, not a security risk). Anyway, I got mail back from an XFree86 guy saying xdm in 3.1.2a and 3.1.2b has a resource "AllowNullPasswd", but he doesn't say how to use it or where to put it. I started by putting in Xresources (in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm) as xdm*AllowNullPasswd: true. Then as xlogin*... then as just AllowNullPasswd but nothing worked. Where do I put it? And is that the right version of XFree86? It appears to be. I looked on XFree86's home page and found an update to xdm, I'll try that but, haven't been on the machine yet. 2) Looking through ads, I'm seeing 4x CD-ROM drives for SoundBlasters and such for less than $150. Which is getting rather attractive. Currently, I have a single speed SCSI CD-ROM and a SoundBlaster 16 with a CD-ROM port (empty, of course). The manual says that the IDE CD-ROM's are slower than the SCSI, but I got thing that 4x IDE would be faster that 1x SCSI. Opinions? Thanks, Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde
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