From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 00:21:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA25378 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from vogon.muc.de (root@vogon.muc.de [193.174.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA25367 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [193.174.4.22] ([193.174.4.22]) by vogon.muc.de with SMTP id <93572-1>; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:20:17 +0100 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:22:16 +0100 To: wes@intele.net From: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Subject: Re: Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <199601160550.WAA26640@intele.net>, Barnacle Wes writes: -JOHN asked: -% What file can I put xdm in so that it loads on startup? - (deleted) -Nah, avoid hacking rc.local if you can. Since starting xdm is rather -like a tty service, start it from /etc/ttys: - -ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure - -This will have the nice side effect of running your X server on -ttyv3, and leaving the logins on ttyv0, ttyv1, and ttyv2 still (deleted) This will work for the rc.local way as well. All of the sys-admin/X11 docu I consulted recommended starting xdm via rc.local (or the like). IMHO it isn't a getty-like program, so don't abuse /etc/ttys for it. ciao lutz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Albers | What's good ? Luederitzstr. 14, 81929-Muenchen, Germany | Life's good - email:lutz@muc.de ph: +49-89-93940364 | But not fair at all http://www.muc.de/~lutz fax:+49-89-93940365 | (Lou Reed) Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.