From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 18:17:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7742637B40D for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9F1HdY26870; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 20:17:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 20:17:39 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Doug Denault Subject: Re: xdm problems: urgent Cc: Freebsd-Questions , Chris Huisman Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Oct-2001 Doug Denault wrote: > First this should be done in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > Use ctrl-alt-F1 to get a text prompt. then > a) killall xdm, or more specifically > b) kill -TERM `cat /var/run/xdm-pid` Actually, all you have to do is edit /etc/ttys, change the line that starts xdm from off to on, save and exit, then do "kill -1 1". -- Conrad Sabatier Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message