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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:39:46 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Cc:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disappearing keyboard
Message-ID:  <199804221639.KAA04130@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpemyq6qmv.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421220801.1501B-100000@shadow.worldbank.org> <199804220516.OAA00391@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <xzpemyq6qmv.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>

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> > AFAIK, there are four ways to start xdm and avoid conflicts with getty.
> > 
> > 1. Specify xdm in /etc/ttys.  If you want to run xdm in ttyv3, you write:
> > 
> > 	ttyv3	"/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
> 
> This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs.

Why?  I contend this is the best way, and have yet to be proven wrong.
(Joerg and I had it out publically/privately already on this, so I'm
feeling pretty good about my odds. :)

> The Right Way (tm) to start X or xdm is to put a shell script in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d which Does the Deed. It will work, no questions
> asked. I have something similar to this:

So is doing in /etc/ttys.



Nate

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