From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 9:27: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D4A37B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:26:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA03624; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:31:33 +0100 Message-ID: <3AA3CC41.6A38B4FE@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:26:25 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lonnie Cumberland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inittab? References: <20010305164900.78800.qmail@web12507.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lonnie Cumberland schrieb: > > Hello All, > > Could some one plese tell me where I make the changes so that FreeBSD will > start up with KDM and the login screen instead of using startx. > > In Linux, we generally just change the setting in the inittab file, FreeBSD > does not seem to have one. Have a look at /usr/local/etv/rc.d/ Mine contains ------ #!/bin/sh # # $Id: kdm.sh,v 1.1 2001/03/05 17:21:56 so Exp $ # # Script to start kdm automagically at boot time # # $Log: kdm.sh,v $ # Revision 1.1 2001/03/05 17:21:56 so # Initial revision # # if [ -x /usr/local/bin/kdm ] then echo " kdm" (sleep 60; /usr/local/bin/kdm)& fi ------ which is quit brute force, as it assumes some simple things to succed before this script runs. There are better ways to do it, look for it at the mailing list archives at http://www-freebsd.org/mail/ Freundliche Grüße aus Waiblingen Christoph Sold -- Systemadministrator, i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str. 57, 71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55, Mail: so@i-clue.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message