From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 22:28:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00CB16A407 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B6413C45E for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:28:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.nl with local; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:28:03 +0100 id 00039832.459C2DF3.00005A2E Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:28:02 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20070103222802.GA23042@lothlorien.nagual.nl> References: <459B4322.5030501@bobmc.net> <20070103161716.GA19963@lothlorien.nagual.nl> <8C5AC29FBACD864DDDCA85CB@utd59514.utdallas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8C5AC29FBACD864DDDCA85CB@utd59514.utdallas.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i From: dick hoogendijk Subject: Re: starting KDE after install .. -not- X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:28:04 -0000 On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 17:17:17 +0100 dick hoogendijk > wrote: > >According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the "-nodaemon" > > Where does it say that? According to the online docs > 'For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like this: > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > and edit it to this: > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure' > But that's not the same as saying "don't use -nodaemon". To me at least it sounds like the kde / kdm developers say what I have to do on a FreeBSD machine, don't you? I agree the words "don't use -nodaemon" are not used, but they are not in their command line. > According to the FreeBSD Handbook > 'To enable kdm, the ttyv8 entry in /etc/ttys has to be adapted. The line > should look as follows: > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure' > In any case, I did what the Handbook stated, because I trust that the > FreeBSD developers know what they're doing, and that's what they told > the guys that write the docs to use for kdm. Someone with more > knowledge than I have would have to explain the technical aspects of > that choice. The handbook is kind of a fbsd bible. I must say it's very thorough. Absolutely _the_ book to read when you run a fbsd flavour. Still I hope that someone more technical than I am will explain some more on this topic. -- http://nagual.nl/ --- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 11/06 ++