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From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_N=FA=F1ez?=" <rinunez@telcel.net.ve>
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Subject: xdm
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:39:26 -0400
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Dear Gentlemen,

I was reading "The Complete FreeBSD" book from Greg Lehey, and I just
installed X11 with no problem.

The problem is that I installed "xdm" as the book says... I mean:

1) I added the following line to "/etc/ttys": 
ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure

I reboot and after that I switch to a graphics mode where it asks me the
login and password. 

FreeBSD seems to accept me, but after a second it logs me out. I canīt log
as a superuser neither.

I supposed I had to boot in single user mode, but from that mode it doesnīt
let me neither modify /etc/ttys (I canīt start any editor) nor delete that
file (it tells me itīs read only).

What can I do?

Yours faithfully,

Ricardo Nunez