Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:35:02 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Raul Zighelboim <raul@zighelboim.com> Cc: "Mark A.Hummel" <mhumm2@mchsi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDM Configuration Question (Replace XDM???) Message-ID: <20020414153502.C18618@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1018794124.54677.3.camel@shame.zighelboim.com>; from raul@zighelboim.com on Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:21:57AM -0400 References: <20020414132155.ONPE24267.sccmmhc02.mchsi.com@there> <20020414150124.A18618@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <1018794124.54677.3.camel@shame.zighelboim.com>
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:21:57AM -0400, Raul Zighelboim wrote: > > > > Anyway, to run kdm at boot-time, the usual way is to have a script in > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kdm.sh that will be run at boot-time. The kde port > > doesn't install one; perhaps it should. Here's mine: > > > > mmmm. I thought the best way was to edit /etc/ttys and replace the x for > a k and off for on on the line: > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure That's certainly true for xdm, but kdm doesn't recognise the -nodaemon switch, and becomes a daemon regardless. That kind of thing tends to confuse init :-) I decided it was easier to write script that figure out how to make kdm play nice. Of course the silly thing is that kdm is just an extended xdm (all the xdm code is in there) so it probably took extra work to remove that feature. Oh well. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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