Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:23:45 -0700 (PDT) From: backyard <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange X problem Message-ID: <20061007002345.98396.qmail@web83114.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <9070EBDB52AA4E1224B5D94D@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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--- Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: > --On Friday, October 06, 2006 15:10:21 -0400 "Bob > M." > <bob.middaugh@comcast.net> wrote: > >> > > >> Therein lies the problem. There *is* an entry in > /etc/ttys: > >> ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm > on secure > >> > >> Guess I'll just start double-checking everything. > Maybe there's a typo > >> somewhere. > > > > Is your path to kdm correct? I've never used KDE, > so I don't know for > > sure, but that entry in /etc/ttys is all you > should need. > > > find / -name kdm > /usr/local/bin/kdm > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > "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 * Most other distributions are a variation of one of these. At this stage, you can test kdm again by bringing your system to the runlevel that should now run kdm. To do so, issue a command like this:" http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/kdm/configuring-your-system-for-kdm.html -nodaemon is the problem. that is for running kdm from the command line. -brian
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