Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:28:02 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: starting KDE after install .. -not- Message-ID: <20070103222802.GA23042@lothlorien.nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <8C5AC29FBACD864DDDCA85CB@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <459B4322.5030501@bobmc.net> <D624C34181D28D15F8F3D125@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <20070103161716.GA19963@lothlorien.nagual.nl> <8C5AC29FBACD864DDDCA85CB@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 17:17:17 +0100 dick hoogendijk > <dick@nagual.nl> wrote: > >According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the "-nodaemon" > > Where does it say that? According to the online docs > 'For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like this: > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > and edit it to this: > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure' > But that's not the same as saying "don't use -nodaemon". To me at least it sounds like the kde / kdm developers say what I have to do on a FreeBSD machine, don't you? I agree the words "don't use -nodaemon" are not used, but they are not in their command line. > According to the FreeBSD Handbook > 'To enable kdm, the ttyv8 entry in /etc/ttys has to be adapted. The line > should look as follows: > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure' > In any case, I did what the Handbook stated, because I trust that the > FreeBSD developers know what they're doing, and that's what they told > the guys that write the docs to use for kdm. Someone with more > knowledge than I have would have to explain the technical aspects of > that choice. The handbook is kind of a fbsd bible. I must say it's very thorough. Absolutely _the_ book to read when you run a fbsd flavour. Still I hope that someone more technical than I am will explain some more on this topic. -- http://nagual.nl/ --- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 11/06 ++
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