Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 15:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: freebsd-doc Subject: Re: conf/3590 Message-ID: <199804232240.PAA11149@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/3590; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Subject: Re: conf/3590
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 18:34:55 -0400 (EDT)
Yet Another Opinion on This Contentious Bug
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tIM...HOEk
OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names
hoping that the resultant code will run faster.
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Date: 22 Apr 1998 13:29:44 +0200
From: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Disappearing keyboard
Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> writes:
> AFAIK, there are four ways to start xdm and avoid conflicts with getty.
>
> 1. Specify xdm in /etc/ttys. If you want to run xdm in ttyv3, you write:
>
> ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs.
> 2. Run xdm from /etc/rc.local (or other rc* files).
> [...]
> 3. Another way to run xdm from /etc/rc.local (or other rc* files).
> [...]
There is a better way, see below.
> 4. Specify the X server in /etc/ttys.
>
> ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/X vt4 -query localhost" xterm on secure
Again, this is evil.
The Right Way (tm) to start X or xdm is to put a shell script in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d which Does the Deed. It will work, no questions
asked. I have something similar to this:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -r /noxdm ] ; then
echo -n " (xdm disabled)"
else
[ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ] && /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm && echo -n " xdm"
fi
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xdm.sh.
If you're picky about the execution order of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*,
use a numeric prefix for each script, as in /etc/periodic/*.
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