From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 22 09:15:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10877 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles231.castles.com [208.214.165.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10826 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:15:45 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00593; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), Kazutaka YOKOTA , "Alok K. Dhir" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappearing keyboard In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:51:19 PDT." <23641.893249479@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:12:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs. > > Why? It's always worked just great for me and I've had it like > this for over 3 years. "Because if your X server crashes it just loops forever" At least that's the pathetic excuse that I've heard most often. Basically, if it works, don't screw with it. Starting it out of /usr/local/etc/rc.local sucks by comparison. (Oh dear, I just borked X, and xdm is confused. 'killall -9 xdm' and back it comes. Perfect IMHO.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message