From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 13:15:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25502 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:15:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mental ([207.113.85.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25497 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by mental (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00290 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:14:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mental: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:14:40 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@mental Reply-To: spork To: fbsdqs Subject: XDM Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I would like to configure XDM. I have "The complete FreeBSD", and it said to put a line like "ttyvX "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xtrerm on secure" in my /etc/ttys file. It presented me with login: and password: and a console log. I typed my name/ password, and the screen blanked and then came back to the same login screen. When I typed an incorrect login, it said incorrect login, so it is recognizing me. I found the server output (included) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors. I don't really understand how to configure xdm, and if anybody has any pointers it would be appreciated. When I couldn't log in via XDM, I cut it out of the ttys file. I kill -HUPed 1, and it was still running. So, I killed it and it's accompanying console reading proccess. I was at the console (ttyv0) at the time. It hung my terminal at the least and the system at worst, as it would just beep when I hit a key. I rebooted the computer, it fscked root (after warning about improper reboot) and then halted on the fscking of /usr. I dropped to singleuser by hitting ^C, and manually fscked /, /usr and /var. I hit ^D, and the system proceeded to boot. Why did xdm do this to my system when I tried to kill it? -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message