Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:53:31 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Amy Wennings <amybsd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Launching xdm at startup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907062252001.266-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <19990705173914.65278.qmail@hotmail.com>
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if you are using modern enough system you should be able just
to switch
ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure
^^^
in your /etc/ttys
Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания)
Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин)
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Amy Wennings wrote:
> What's the proper way to start xdm at boot time?
>
> I created /usr/local/etc/rc.d/start_xdm.sh with this inside:
> #!/bin/sh
> xdm
>
> But it has two problems:
>
> 1) root doesn't get a proper environment - it can't find the sbin directory
>
> 2) my user account always gets xconsole running when it logs in. This
> doesn't happen if I log in as root and then run xdm
>
>
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