From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 11:47:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA01378 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.com (troodon.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.14.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA01352 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709171847.LAA01352@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 9494 invoked from network); 17 Sep 1997 18:45:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO pobox.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Sep 1997 18:45:32 -0000 To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com cc: infoseek@bcoe.bm, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm recycling In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:40:42 EDT." <341F5F4A.33C9@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:45:32 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Jon Hamilton's homepage