From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 10:47:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA27820 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA27812 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA00740; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:46:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from chi-il6-21.ix.netcom.com(199.35.203.213) by dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma000719; Wed Sep 17 12:46:08 1997 Message-ID: <341F5F4A.33C9@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:40:42 -0400 From: Richard Scranton Reply-To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: infoseek@bcoe.bm, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: xdm recycling Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> also xdm is behaving very poorly and when invoked as a deamon from the >> command line merely "cycles" when you try and log in. so if user >> applebaum logs in successfully, xdm starts doing something (what i don't >> know) it seems like the server actually exits (the screen goes black, >> clicking hardware noises in the monitor) and whamo there is the login >> screen again. If you don't have a .xsession file in your home directory, you won't get very far. Remember too, it must be marked executable. -- =================================================================== Richard Scranton - LDA Systems - Information Management Consulting scrantr@ix.netcom.com Columbus Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Atlanta