From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 17:39:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B7915345 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:39:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20289; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:04:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:04:21 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Marc Wandschneider Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local vs /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ In-Reply-To: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C223305498B@akira.lanfear.com> 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 On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > > blaugh! > > so, I'm trying to set up xdm. I've looked on the > FreeBSD-questions archive on www.freebsd.org, and it suggests that i put > a few lines of code in: > > 1. /etc/rc.local > OR > 2. /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > Problem is, i have neither of these files. > > Should I create them? Is there some new location that has > superseded these? If I create these, how can I be sure they're > executed? you can use either, but the suggested method for starting xdm is using /etc/ttys, turn this line 'on' ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure change to 'on' >----------^^^ enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message