From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 22 08:47:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29011 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net (tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.60.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28987; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:47:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tbuswell@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net) Received: (from tbuswell@localhost) by tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12905; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:47:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tbuswell) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:47:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801221647.LAA12905@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net> From: Ted Buswell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Fieber Cc: Ted Buswell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm & login.conf limits. In-Reply-To: References: <199801221454.JAA12582@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under 20.2 XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: tbuswell@mediaone.net (Ted Buswell) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "John" == John Fieber writes: John> The XFree86 in the ports collection already has a ptach for John> this. Unfortunately, that patch does not set the Reading the patches from the port, it's amazing how unoriginal my patch was. But I'll admit I didn't know there was a XFree86 port. In any case, when I do an OS install and choose to include X, are the binaries that get installed generated from the port, or are they obtained from another source (like a binary dist from XFree86.org)? Would it be possible to get the xdm that gets intalled during OS install (X User, X Developer, etc.) be a 'login.conf aware' xdm? That is, if the OS install uses pure XFree86 code, has [should?] the patch in the port made it back to XFree86? Thanks, -Ted