Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:01:19 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC Message-ID: <0FI4005LDFU3PL@gkar.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199909151959.PAA22581@cs.rpi.edu>
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On 15-Sep-99 David E. Cross wrote: > We have a very hetergenous environment here (even among the FreeBSD > boxes). > Each PC tends to be just a little bit different. This expecially > causes > problems since we wish to have XDM on each machine on boot and have X > on a NFS partition. TO alleviate this we invented a simple Perl > script > to replace /usr/X11R6/bin/X to run the correct program on each > machine: Umm, you can edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to configure xdm to run say /usr/config/X (which would be stored on the local machiens hard drive) instead of /usr/X11R6/bin/X. This is a much simpler solution. :) (Just symlink /usr/config/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Whatever.) --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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