Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:04:06 +0800 From: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. Message-ID: <20040227100406.4d29eec4.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <200402262226.i1QMQlS10937@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E64C@minnie.outland> <200402262226.i1QMQlS10937@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> > The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my > > rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on > > these two would be awesome. Thanks. > > I have not been successfule with that sort of thing. Anyway, I > don't think just putting it in rc.conf would do the trick because > that just sets a bunch of variables in there. Then the stuff is > actually run from rc (and some other places I think) using those > variable values set in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.. > > I think you might not want your startx to fire off until after > you log in anyway. That would mean putting it in .login (if > you have a csh or tcsh shell) and that is what didn't work > for me, though I didn't try many variations. If you're running the Bash shell, putting "startx" into file ~/.bash_profile will have the desired effect. Under FBSD, by default there is no .bash_profile file, so just create one for each individual user who wants to start up in X. regards, Robert
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