From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 14 17:50:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A338C150B1 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au) Received: from localhost (iaint@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11227; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:47:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from iaint@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:47:00 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm for remote hosts only? In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Hi everybody... > > Just wondering if there's something I missed in the XDM manpage that will > allow XDM to run in the background as an XDM server for remote hosts only, > and NOT start up an X session on the local computer, nor require logins > for X sessions on the local computer. > > I realize that an X server must be running for remote logins to work. > However, what I would like to see happen is for the X server to start, > then switch me back to my terminal screen. (Without having to hit the > obligatory Ctrl-Alt-F# key combination :-) > No, you don't have to run an X server at all. Look at the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, and you should see down at the bottom a line telling xdm to start a server on the local host. If you comment this out you should be ok. I don't even have an X server binary on this computer, and everything runs ok. Iain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message