From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 13:29:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63CD14D8B for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rneswold@mcs.net) Received: from Jupiter.mcs.net (rneswold@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id PAA00336; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:29:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (rneswold@localhost) by Jupiter.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id PAA14277; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:29:17 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Jupiter.mcs.net: rneswold owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:29:17 -0500 (CDT) From: "Richard M. Neswold" Reply-To: "Richard M. Neswold" To: Patrick Walentiny Cc: Amy Wennings , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Launching xdm at startup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Patrick Walentiny wrote: > Then restart the machine. You really only need to restart the machine to install a new kernel. To get 'init' to re-read /etc/ttys, simply send it a HUP signal: kill -HUP 1 (init is _always_ process 1) > The xconsole is kinda strange I have not looked in to why it pops up, I > just accepted it cause I liked it being there anyways? It gets started in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0". Rich ======================================================================== Richard Neswold | rneswold@mcs.net Home Page 'http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/' | PGP Key 'finger rneswold@mcs.net' | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message