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Abidoon Nadeem wrote:
> Linux has run levels 
> in run level 5 X starts automatically 
> what can i do to make X start up all by itself when freebsd boots up ! 
> Please reply ASAP ! 

In /etc/ttys, there's a line for ttyv8; be sure it looks like:

ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure


BTW: no need for rebooting after this change. Simply do
as root "kill -HUP 1" (no quotes, of course).

R.