From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 22 23:33:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7428137B40E for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 23:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc5vdj@yahoo.com) Received: from mkc-65-28-47-209.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.28.47.209) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 06:33:07 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B84A3A2.8020507@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:33:06 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: exec issue in tcsh? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i noticed this after a build from -current of about 24 hours ago: due to problems getting kde-2.2 to compile under -current, I am currently using windowmaker and doing a `exec startx >&/dev/null` to get into X without leaving a console shell open... the problem i have is that when i switched back to vty0 to test to see if removing VESA support solved the panic issue with syscons, i noticed that i still didn't have a login prompt over there, and pressing enter just gives a new line... i haven't tried a control-c, but i'd lay odds that it would kill the X session. i don't know if this is a tcsh issue or a getty issue.... i'll save my current session and do a conrol-c just to find out and post a followup message to this in a few minutes. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message