From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 8 09:04:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA17895 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 09:04:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA17888 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 09:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA00418; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:04:09 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199706081604.SAA00418@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: xdm login In-Reply-To: <3399B5DB.D9E7EF8F@spacehog.structured.net> from Justin Ashworth at "7. Jun. 97 19:26:19" To: ashworth@cs.montana.edu Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:04:09 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Justin Ashworth who wrote: > I login to my system via xdm when I boot my system. In other words, I > never login on the console. I've noticed that when I do this and attempt > to see who's on the system with 'w' or 'finger', I never show up. Is > there some xdm configuration that would allow me to show up as logged > in? You need to start one xterm with -ls. Either in your .xsession or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession. Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de