Date: 22 Apr 1998 13:29:44 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappearing keyboard Message-ID: <xzpemyq6qmv.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Kazutaka YOKOTA's message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:16:40 %2B0900" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421220801.1501B-100000@shadow.worldbank.org> <199804220516.OAA00391@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> writes:
> AFAIK, there are four ways to start xdm and avoid conflicts with getty.
>
> 1. Specify xdm in /etc/ttys. If you want to run xdm in ttyv3, you write:
>
> ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs.
> 2. Run xdm from /etc/rc.local (or other rc* files).
> [...]
> 3. Another way to run xdm from /etc/rc.local (or other rc* files).
> [...]
There is a better way, see below.
> 4. Specify the X server in /etc/ttys.
>
> ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/X vt4 -query localhost" xterm on secure
Again, this is evil.
The Right Way (tm) to start X or xdm is to put a shell script in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d which Does the Deed. It will work, no questions
asked. I have something similar to this:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -r /noxdm ] ; then
echo -n " (xdm disabled)"
else
[ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ] && /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm && echo -n " xdm"
fi
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xdm.sh.
If you're picky about the execution order of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*,
use a numeric prefix for each script, as in /etc/periodic/*.
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