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Date:      Sat, 04 Oct 2003 02:37:37 +0200
From:      Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
To:        ecrist@adtechintegrated.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDM and FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20031004003737.GB56780@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200310021732.02932.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com>
References:  <200310021732.02932.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com>

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> Hey all,
> 
> I'm a huge nut of the CLI, but my girlfriend is not.  I've gone through a 
> bunch of the documentation on 
> http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/kdm/Configuring-your-system-for-kdm.html 
> and have gotten as far as test whether I can run
> 
> grog# kdm -nodeamon
> 
> and I get a KDE login screen after a few breif seconds.  Now, how do I 
> implement this so that kdm initalizes at boot so my gf can use my FreeBSD 
> system without having to type what is, in her words, some "arcane fucking 
> command from the old world of DOS."

Any script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ gets started at boot time. A script
usaly has a "echo -n 'script name'" that print a message at boot time.


-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/



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