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Date:      Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:43:12 -0500
From:      "Chris" <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        "Alex de Kruijff" <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>, <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: KDM and FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <PFEELIMHKEDMFHCEKHJCCEJOCGAA.racerx@makeworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031004003737.GB56780@dds.nl>

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Change this in /etc/ttys file - reboot, live happy.

ttyv8  "/usr/local/bin/kdm"            xterm   on  secure




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Alex de Kruijff
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:38 PM
> To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: KDM and FreeBSD?
>
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm a huge nut of the CLI, but my girlfriend is not.  I've gone
> through a
> > bunch of the documentation on
> >
> http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/kdm/Configuring-your-system-for
-kdm.html
> and have gotten as far as test whether I can run
>
> grog# kdm -nodeamon
>
> and I get a KDE login screen after a few breif seconds.  Now, how do I
> implement this so that kdm initalizes at boot so my gf can use my FreeBSD
> system without having to type what is, in her words, some "arcane fucking
> command from the old world of DOS."

Any script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ gets started at boot time. A script
usaly has a "echo -n 'script name'" that print a message at boot time.


--
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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