From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 22 09:17:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11340 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:17:13 -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 QAA11315 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:17:06 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 JAA00611; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804221614.JAA00611@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Kazutaka YOKOTA , "Alok K. Dhir" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappearing keyboard In-reply-to: Your message of "22 Apr 1998 15:12:39 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:14:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > > 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. > > Amongst other things, it makes it difficult to restart xdm properly, > and it has been known to hang some machines under some circumstances. "I don't know, but I was told that it's bad." How do you "restart xdm properly" if it's run out of an obscure system startup script? You're being silly again. 8) -- \\ 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