Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 01:35:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d problem Message-ID: <199705010835.BAA10893@dog.farm.org>
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In article <19970428070651.14651@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> you wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 1997 at 08:34:20PM +0200, Peter Korsten wrote: > >For the normal daemons, this works OK, but putting xdm in the X11 > >rc directory turned out to be a Bad Idea. What seems to happen, is > >that xdm initializes and starts X, but after that, the vty's are > >initilized. it doesn't have too. see below. [...] > >I'm almost positive that this is a known issue, but is there a way > >to get around it? > Delay the starting of xdm. Here's what I have in my /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xdm > file: > #!/bin/sh > # Make sure root can start xconsole when xdm starts > chown root /dev/console > if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -a -f /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config ]; then > echo -n ' xdm' > (sleep 10; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config)& > fi hmm, I always do it this way: - edit xdm/Xservers - remove local X server - make sure xdm/Xaccess has localhost (or * if you don't care) - edit /etc/ttys - run X server from there (as a bonus, init would stop restarting it if it fails) ttyv8 "/usr/X11/bin/X ttyv8 -logo -once -query localhost" xterm on secure - run xdm whenever you want, it would just sit quietly waiting for init launching gettys and X server at the same time... -- old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes -- net.someone
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