From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 7: 0:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92E415446 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id TAA01636; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:56:32 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id TAA00592; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:44:45 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA00283; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:53:31 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:53:31 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Amy Wennings Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Launching xdm at startup In-Reply-To: <19990705173914.65278.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message