Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:45:32 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com Cc: infoseek@bcoe.bm, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm recycling Message-ID: <199709171847.LAA01352@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:40:42 EDT." <341F5F4A.33C9@ix.netcom.com>
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In message <341F5F4A.33C9@ix.netcom.com>, Richard Scranton writes: } >> 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. Nonsense. If a user doesn't have an .xsession, a default session is used (see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession). It would probably pay to check out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors to see what the problem is. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com | hamilton@pitviper.med.ge.com <A HREF="http://www.pobox.com/~hamilton">Jon Hamilton's homepage</A>
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