From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 07:50:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C141916A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.web-mania.com (mail.web-mania.com [217.204.37.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EA743D2F for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:50:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edd@arameus.net) Received: from tectonics.force9.co.uk ([212.159.95.35] helo=it3) by mail.web-mania.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #13) id 1Ap8Hk-0002w5-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:52:52 +0000 Message-ID: <004901c3ecc9$2d447a70$8000a8c0@it3> From: "Edd Barrett" To: Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:51:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-WM-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-WM-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Kdm at boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:50:36 -0000 What is the correct way of starting kdm at boot? I have tried echo "/usr/local/bin/kdm >> /etc/rc.local" , but this causes the system to hang. kdm works fine if executed on a root shell. Someone told me to do a wait 5 && kdm, but i see this as a bodge. Thanks