From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 2:15:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35A9837B906 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 02:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 5644 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 09:11:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 2 May 2000 09:11:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 1485 invoked by uid 211); 2 May 2000 08:23:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:53:35 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Jeffrey Vehrs Cc: Laurent de Segur , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie question. Message-ID: <20000502135335.A1459@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Jeffrey Vehrs , Laurent de Segur , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001501bfb3ee$87a3cab0$4ef00404@wildkat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <001501bfb3ee$87a3cab0$4ef00404@wildkat>; from jwvehrs@netzero.net on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 11:25:41PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Cannot boot directly to X? Did you create xsession in your home directory? > If not, please do. Eh? Why should that help his system boot into X? > > However I can not boot directly to X. Which file do I need to modify to > > start X after init time (my /etc/defaults/rc.conf correctly included a > > local_startup option pointing to rc.d and the file in there contains xdm > but > > that doesn't work.) What does the file in rc.d say? Does it include the full path and so on? I have a line at the bottom of /etc/rc.local, that works fine for me. In fact I feel its preferable since it ensures that xdm/equivalent starts after everything else. I don't know the official solution, though. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message