From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 8:48: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72ACC14C59 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:47:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 4500"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-29 #30976) with ESMTP id <0F9000A1G9BESP@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:47:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:47:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: XDM kookiness In-reply-to: <36F66B23.68192637@math.udel.edu> To: Peter Schwenk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 I used to start it from there, but then I moved to kdm, and kdm complains about the way ttys like to start it. I moved to /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/X.sh, and it works fine. Joe Clarke On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Peter Schwenk wrote: > I've read lots of people freak out about starting it there. Just curious... Why > do some people think it's a bad place to start it? > > Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke wrote: > > > You can also start it from /etc/ttys: > > > > ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > > > Then kill -1 1. > > > > Joe Clarke > > > > > > -- > PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator > Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware > schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message