From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 04:14:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA06107 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 04:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA06082 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 04:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.165]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:16:29 +0200 Received: (from malte.lance@gmx.net) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01056; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:30:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:30:14 +0200 (CEST) To: Thomas Dean Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Restarting xdm In-Reply-To: <199808031754.KAA00908@ix.netcom.com> References: <199808031754.KAA00908@ix.netcom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13766.50765.170940.775527@neuron.webmore.de> Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas Dean writes: > For David Dawes: > > The XFree86 readme suggests starting xdm from /etc/ttys. The FreeBSD > FAQ suggests starting xdm from rc.local. Either way, if there is, for > example, a power glitch reboot, xdm will not start without root > intervention. I believe this is because the pid file exists. Do you clean up /tmp on bootup ? If not, maybe /tmp/.X-lock bites you after "power glitch reboot". Malte. > > The xdm pid file is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid. Should the pid > file be in /var/run? Should it be cleaned-up at boot time? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message