Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:01:24 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: "Mark A.Hummel" <mhumm2@mchsi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDM Configuration Question (Replace XDM???) Message-ID: <20020414150124.A18618@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020414132155.ONPE24267.sccmmhc02.mchsi.com@there>; from mhumm2@mchsi.com on Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:27:09AM -0500 References: <20020414132155.ONPE24267.sccmmhc02.mchsi.com@there>
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:27:09AM -0500, Mark A.Hummel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been sent to, read, printed, and studied the handbook and fbsd FAQs
> about booting to XDM. The advice to "... just read that and do what it says
> but replace xdm with kdm." doesn't work! It's very much appreciated, but
> again, I couldn't get it to work. All I get (with xdm) is an xterm login
> loop.
>
> My goal is to boot my system to a KDE login screen. I understand to do that,
> I should use kdm which I've found. When I just run kdm from the console I
> get the following error message:
>
> Cannot open access control file /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xaccess, no
> XDMCP requests will be granted.
How did you install KDE? If you installed it from packages (or built the
port) you should have all the necessary stuff in
/usr/local/share/config/kdm. You did install KDE2, right?
Anyway, to run kdm at boot-time, the usual way is to have a script in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/kdm.sh that will be run at boot-time. The kde port
doesn't install one; perhaps it should. Here's mine:
----- cut here -----
#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop KDM login manager
# scott 20020101
kdm=/usr/local/bin/kdm
kdmpid=/var/run/xdm.pid
case "$1" in
start)
if [ -f $kdmpid ]
then
echo "kdm already running (pid `cat $kdmpid`)?"
echo "Maybe try '$0 stop' first"
else
$kdm
fi
;;
stop)
if [ ! -f $kdmpid ]
then
echo "kdm not running!"
echo "Maybe try '$0 start' first"
else
kill `cat $kdmpid`
rm -f $kdmpid
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
exit 64
;;
esac
exit 0
----- cut here -----
Copy that to the right place, make sure it's executable, then (as root):
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kdm.sh start
or just reboot.
Of course you *should* be able to run kdm directly as you tried to do
above, so you need to fix that problem first... maybe a re-install of KDE
is called for?
HTH,
Scott
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