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Date:      Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:53:31 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        Amy Wennings <amybsd@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Launching xdm at startup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907062252001.266-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <19990705173914.65278.qmail@hotmail.com>

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if you are using modern enough system you should be able just 
to switch 

ttyv3   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure 
                                                ^^^

in your /etc/ttys

Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания)

 Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин)

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Amy Wennings wrote:

> What's the proper way to start xdm at boot time?
> 
> I created /usr/local/etc/rc.d/start_xdm.sh with this inside:
> #!/bin/sh
> xdm
> 
> But it has two problems:
> 
> 1) root doesn't get a proper environment - it can't find the sbin directory
> 
> 2) my user account always gets xconsole running when it logs in. This 
> doesn't happen if I log in as root and then run xdm
> 
> 
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