From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 2 11: 7:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221AE37B407 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:07:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f62I6wi12966; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:06:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200107021806.f62I6wi12966@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: William Richard Cc: festus , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to to boot directly into X from Freebsd 4.0 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:24:03 PDT." <01062921240300.09131@saffron> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 14:06:58 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG william wailed, > On Thursday 28 June 2001 16:07, festus wrote: > > Can someone give an idea of the files I need to tweak to get this > > working? > Some miserable bastard wrote an article last year on setting up XDM, which is > at Daemon News: > http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/xdm.html I simply changed the single line in /etc/ttys to tern xdm on: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message