From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 18 09:06:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA15400 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bcewww.bcoe.bm (www.bcoe.bm [199.172.226.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA15394 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bces1 ([192.9.200.1]) by bcewww.bcoe.bm (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA22124; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:02:49 -0300 Message-ID: <34215028.A65@bcoe.bm> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:00:40 -0300 From: InfoSeeker X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Hamilton CC: scrantr@ix.netcom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm recycling References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jon you indeed are very correct. Seems I am being rejected from my localhost for not being able to authenticate me via the MIT-MAGICOOKIE-AUTH. Ummm suggestions on reading material for me? FAQ's? thanks ian wallace - sys admin - bermuda commodities exchange Jon Hamilton wrote: > > In message <341F5F4A.33C9@ix.netcom.com>, Richard Scranton writes: > } >> also xdm is behaving very poorly and when invoked as a deamon from the > } >> command line merely "cycles" when you try and log in. so if user > } >> applebaum logs in successfully, xdm starts doing something (what i don't > } >> know) it seems like the server actually exits (the screen goes black, > } >> clicking hardware noises in the monitor) and whamo there is the login > } >> screen again. > } > } If you don't have a .xsession file in your home directory, you > } won't get very far. Remember too, it must be marked executable. > > Nonsense. If a user doesn't have an .xsession, a default session is used > (see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession). It would probably pay to check out > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors to see what the problem is. > > -- > Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com | hamilton@pitviper.med.ge.com > Jon Hamilton's homepage