From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 24 08:50:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22802 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22797 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA04852; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:49:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA14108; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:49:53 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:49:53 -0600 Message-Id: <199804241549.JAA14108@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappearing keyboard In-Reply-To: <19980424092427.04738@papillon.lemis.com> References: <23641.893249479@time.cdrom.com> <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com> <19980424092427.04738@papillon.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA22798 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ xdm in /etc/ttys ] > >>> This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs. > >> > >> Why? It's always worked just great for me and I've had it like > >> this for over 3 years. > > > > "Because if your X server crashes it just loops forever" > > > > At least that's the pathetic excuse that I've heard most often. > > Is this pathetic, even if it's strictly not true? It's pathetic, since if you use xdm, it'll loop forever no matter where it's started from. The only thing that will cause you a minor bit of trouble is if xdm fails, it'll loop about 5 times, then init will give up trying and dump a message to the screen. However, if you start it from /etc/rc.local, it'll only try once. > I think we're on the wrong forum here to understand why it's evil. I > suggested it in "Installing and Running FreeBSD", and Jörg came down > on me and pointed out this problem. Joerg didn't fully understand the issues. It's perfectly safe to put in /etc/ttys. Matter of fact, I (and Mike) suggest that it's still the 'correct' place to put it. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message