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From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>
Subject: Re: xdm problems: urgent
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On 15-Oct-2001 Doug Denault wrote:
> I understood the original post to indicate could not login and start an
> xterm. If I am in error - mea culpa

Ummm....maybe I replied in the wrong thread.  :-)

> 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 <conrads@home.com>
>> 
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