From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 10:37:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28413 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from lms02.us1.ibm.com (lms02.ny.us.ibm.com [198.133.29.70]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28407 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:37:49 -0800 (PST) From: ouyang@us.ibm.com Received: from d04lms01.raleigh.ibm.com by lms02.us1.ibm.com (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA08374; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:45:32 GMT Received: by US.IBM.COM (Soft-Switch LMS 2.0) with snapi via D04AU003 id 5040100000056058; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:36:20 -0500 To: Subject: xdm Message-Id: <5040100000056058000002L082*@MHS> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:36:20 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; name="MEMO 02/20/97 13:23:52" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Classification: Prologue: Epilogue: Dear FreeBSD experts, I have a question regarding xdm (X display manager): After I added the line ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure in /etc/ttys, I followed the procedure to get init to read the changes in /etc/ttys, so I entered # kill -1 1 I got the login screen as it was supposed to. However, after I entered the username and password, the system returned to the login screen again. I tried to reboot the system but got the same result. Would you please tell me how can I fix this problem? Thanks you very much! Sincerely, Tung OuYang Network Studies, IBM