From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 18:30:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF0D37B403 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f9F1UZ887878; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:30:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:30:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: Freebsd-Questions , Chris Huisman Subject: Re: xdm problems: urgent In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I understood the original post to indicate could not login and start an xterm. If I am in error - mea culpa On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message