From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 14:53:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18947 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18942 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:53:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA06895; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:49:27 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:49:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: JOHN cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XDM and log in prompts... In-Reply-To: <01I1ITETB0OI8WVYPA@POMONA.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, JOHN wrote: > I have a few questions, hope someone can answer them. First is, when I > reboot my machine, FreeBSD always fails to supply the password prompt > the first time someone tries to log in after reboot. AFter that first time, > no problems until I reboot again. What would be causing this? Did you try pressing return to get a new prompt? I notice that the Password: prompt takes a while to appear for the first time, but it is there. > Second, in the rc.local file, how would I start XDM up only as a daemon, > so that it will accept connections from other terminals, but not start > up my Xserver on the console? I looked in the manual pages, and didnt > see anything. I just ran /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm. You may want to try commenting out the line in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers. I haven't tried that though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major