Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:00:03 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, stanb@awod.com Subject: Re: OK, where did rc.local go? Message-ID: <199903150500.WAA28622@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <9903142117.aa15215@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <6023.921383704@zippy.cdrom.com> <9903142117.aa15215@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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> > > And whats the "right way" to start the xdm task now? > > > > I always start mine from /etc/ttys, but others scream that this is > > evil. I don't care. > > Last time I tried this it was horribly broken. Worked fine for most > things but I had xterms doing indirect xdmcp to the machine. Xdm > just forked as fast as it could and the xterms never got a chooser. > I presume it is a bug in xdm -nodaemon, but I didn't have time to go > find it. This was in October - YMMV. That "can't happen" as init make sure xdm can't fork too fast w/out disabling itself. Unless it happened that the "xdm" binary had a bug in it that caused 'nodaemon' to be ignored, which would cause the inferior xdm process to fork un-beknownst to the original xdm process. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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