Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:30:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curious interaction between kdm and snmpd on startup Message-ID: <14817.54904.257674.7378@onceler.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010082124060.79640-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <14814.15644.780542.774320@onceler.kciLink.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010082124060.79640-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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>>>>> "DW" == Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes: DW> This is what happens when the getty on console and xdm start up DW> simultaneously. The keyboard goes into limbo-mode. That explains it... wow. What a fun timing issue. Curious how adding snmpd to startup triggers it every time! DW> The solution is to get xdm to wait 5-10 seconds for the getty to launch DW> before starting itself. This can be done with some nifty shell Yes; this is what I'm doing now: (sleep 30; kdm) & but I think I can cut the sleep time a bit ;-) Thanks for the tip and confirmation. Perhaps I can just start kdm from init (/etc/ttys) and it will work out the timing itself ... I'll try that later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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