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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 09:44:32 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Michael Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
cc: Ted Spradley <tsprad@spradley.dyn.ml.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: X11 and /tmp 
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Michael Knoll wrote:

> >Bad Thing. I *hate* that. In defiance, I've been starting xdm by listing it 
> >in my /etc/ttys file for years with no noticeable ill effect.  Can anyone
> >tell me *why* it's a Bad Thing?
> 
> Loading XDM like this does not allow network XDM connections.  How can I
> load it to get both local and network XDM logins.

For what its worth, I've never observed this behavior.  I've
always started xdm in /etc/ttys and frequntly log in from remote
X terminals using XDMCP without any problem. 

-john