From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 14 21: 0:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C525114E25 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:00:40 -0800 (PST) (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 WAA09100; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:00:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA28622; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:00:03 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:00:03 -0700 Message-Id: <199903150500.WAA28622@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Malone Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, stanb@awod.com Subject: Re: OK, where did rc.local go? In-Reply-To: <9903142117.aa15215@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <6023.921383704@zippy.cdrom.com> <9903142117.aa15215@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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