From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 7: 1:24 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 875A814BF1 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:01:18 -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 TAA01637; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:56:34 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id TAA00595; 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 TAA00647; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:38:02 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:38:01 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Patrick Walentiny Cc: Amy Wennings , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Launching xdm at startup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Patrick Walentiny wrote: > Hi there, > Just a few pointers I picked up while running xdm. Instead of > putting a script in /usr/local/etc/rd.d, try this. > Open /etc/ttys, edit the file from > ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > to > ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > Then restart the machine. Also for the path's, try creating and chmoding why the hell do you need to restart the machine ?! # killall -HUP init would be enough ... > (755) a .xsession file in $HOME for root and your personal account. > In there you can add a line like... > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin; export PATH > > or whatever you need to fix the problem. The xconsole is kinda strange I > have not looked in to why it pops up, I just accepted it cause I liked it > being there anyways? > > > Good Luck, Patrick. > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message