From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 22 09:49:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20098 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:49:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20086 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:49:02 GMT (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA16548; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:48:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA04232; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:48:37 -0600 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:48:37 -0600 Message-Id: <199804221648.KAA04232@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , 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: <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: <23641.893249479@time.cdrom.com> <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid 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. And how is that any different from running it out of /etc/rc.*? (Since xdm will still continue to run forever, no matter where it's started from, since that is what xdm does. :) Nate > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message