Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:39:37 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: starting KDE after install .. -not- Message-ID: <8C5AC29FBACD864DDDCA85CB@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070103161716.GA19963@lothlorien.nagual.nl> References: <459B4322.5030501@bobmc.net> <D624C34181D28D15F8F3D125@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <20070103161716.GA19963@lothlorien.nagual.nl>
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--On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 17:17:17 +0100 dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> wrote: > On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Try this. Edit /etc/ttys thus: >> ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the "-nodaemon" > Why do you? Where does it say that? According to the online docs (<http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/kdm/configuring-your-system-for-kdm.html>) 'For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like this: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure and edit it to this: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure' But that's not the same as saying "don't use -nodaemon". According to the FreeBSD Handbook (<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#X11-WM-KDE-DETAILS>) 'To enable kdm, the ttyv8 entry in /etc/ttys has to be adapted. The line should look as follows: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure' If you detach the parent process, what happens when the child process dies? Will the parent respawn another child without initd running? In any case, I did what the Handbook stated, because I trust that the FreeBSD developers know what they're doing, and that's what they told the guys that write the docs to use for kdm. Someone with more knowledge than I have would have to explain the technical aspects of that choice. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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