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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:20:03 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@mail.iaces.com>
To:        schwenk@math.udel.edu (Peter Schwenk)
Cc:        marcus@miami.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XDM kookiness
Message-ID:  <199903221620.KAA09064@iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <36F66B23.68192637@math.udel.edu> from Peter Schwenk at "Mar 22, 99 11:09:07 am"

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You have a little less control than doing it in a shell script.

Curiously, When I had either 2.2.6 or 2.2.7 installed, I had to
have it in ttys instead of a shell script. The machine locked
up the other way, but worked fine this way. I didn't feel like
trying to sort that one out.


In a previous message, Peter Schwenk said:
> I've read lots of people freak out about starting it there.  Just curious... Why
> do some people think it's a bad place to start it?
> 
> Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke wrote:
> 
> > You can also start it from /etc/ttys:
> >
> > ttyv3   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on      secure
> >
> > Then kill -1 1.
> >
> > Joe Clarke
> >
> >
> 
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> PETER SCHWENK                                    |  UNIX System Administrator
> Department of Mathematical Sciences              |  University of Delaware
> schwenk@math.udel.edu                            |  (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!!
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