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Subject: Re: Start gnome's gdm at once
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> > How do you start gnome's at once, without going to the command prompt and
> > doing 'gdm'?
> # cd /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
> # mv gdm.sh.sample gdm.sh

Another alternative to this would be to edit /etc/ttys with a line like this:

ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"   xterm off secure

Except that you'll need to set the path (xdm's path) to gdm's path.

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