From owner-cvs-etc Sat Jan 25 09:52:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09914 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09860; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA01425; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:51:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id SAA23525; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:31:30 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:31:28 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: nate@freefall.freebsd.org (Nate Williams) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc ttys References: <199701250551.VAA19846@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701250551.VAA19846@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Nate Williams on Jan 24, 1997 21:51:25 -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > nate 97/01/24 21:51:24 > > Modified: etc ttys > Log: > Change the entry for ttyv3 to be the same as X would require if we > were using xdm (but still off). > > Revision Changes Path > 1.17 +3 -3 src/etc/ttys Eeeek! Please, take this out again. Starting xdm from /etc/ttys is one of the most annoying bogons that's still wandering through Usenet and some other references. It *horribly* shoots in your foot if your Xserver doesn't come up for some reason. Better don't give the innocent user such an ill advice. The correct way to force starting the Xserver on a particular VTY with xdm is to edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, and add ``vt03'' in the last line (so it won't try to probe for a random VTY at startup time). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)