From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 11: 9:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.uni-kl.de (news.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 431B514EEE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sold@cheasy.de) Received: from kit.uni-kl.de ( mail.kit.uni-kl.de [131.246.168.130] ) by news.uni-kl.de id aa20623 ; 26 Oct 1999 20:11 MESZ Received: from KIT_PRIAMOS/SpoolDir by kit.uni-kl.de (Mercury 1.43); 26 Oct 99 20:08:52 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by KIT_PRIAMOS (Mercury 1.43); 26 Oct 99 20:08:50 +0200 Received: from router.merowingia.uni-kl.de (131.246.134.2) by kit.uni-kl.de (Mercury 1.43) with ESMTP; 26 Oct 99 20:08:46 +0200 Received: from mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de (mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de [131.246.135.13]) by router.merowingia.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA87697; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:08:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from sold@localhost) by mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02724; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:07:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sold) From: Christoph Sold Message-ID: <14357.60924.391947.459196@mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:07:56 +0200 (CEST) To: William Melanson Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My /usr/local/etc/kdm.sh script does not work In-Reply-To: References: <199910231434.QAA01263@mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 6) "Big Bend" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Melanson writes: > On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Christoph Sold wrote: > > % Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 16:34:28 +0200 (CEST) > % From: Christoph Sold > % To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG > % Subject: My /usr/local/etc/kdm.sh script does not work > % > % Hi Folks, > % > % I sumbled across a problem I am not able to solve myself: I want to > % start kdm automatically at boot time. However, my solution does not > % work. [snip] > > > Hmmm... > > I'd put the exact path to kdm as such: > > #!/bin/sh > if [ -x /usr/local/bin/kdm ] ; then > #sleep for some time to give getty a chance to grab its ttys > echo -n " kdm"; > sleep 12; > /usr/local/bin/kdm 2>&1 > /var/log/kdm.startup & > fi > > maybe he's just having problems finding it? :) > That's the trick. Thanks, William. OTOH, kdm insists in finding some additional pieces -- an export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin helped, too. -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message