From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 16:25:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14864 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14859 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06963; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:25:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd006936; Tue Aug 4 16:24:58 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11676; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:24:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808042324.QAA11676@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Problems Restarting xdm To: malte.lance@gmx.net Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:24:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tomdean@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <13766.50765.170940.775527@neuron.webmore.de> from "Malte Lance" at Aug 4, 98 10:30:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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". This is a job for ... rc.d. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message