Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:49:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com> Cc: Joe McGuckin <joe@monk.via.net>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XDM & FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <3A217773.C0813714@FreeBSD.org> References: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPMEIKCKAA.otterr@telocity.com>
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Otter wrote:
>
> Joe,
> That all depends on your versions of FreeBSD and XFree86. In
> 4.2-RELEASE and using XF86-4.0.1_8 (I'd guess 3.3.6 to be about the
> same requirements), the only thing you need to do is edit /etc/ttys
> (assuming you want xdm to start at boot, otherwise, just type "xdm" at
> the prompt). Anything prior to that, I've found also requires a tweak
> of xdm-config. I use wdm, but it works just the same for setup
> (xdm/wdm/kdm/etc). In /etc/ttys, change the one line to look like
> mine:
>
> ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/wdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
>
> Of course, you'll need to reinit/reboot to get that to take effect.
No, you don't have to reboot. Just 'kill -1 1' to get init to reread
that file.
Doug
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