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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: X dropping characters when usin xdm
Date: 13 Jul 1993 23:02:10 +0930
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au public access UNIX
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Message-ID: <21udhb$anu@cleese.apana.org.au>
References: <21cn6h$aa3@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <1993Jul7.121717.24764@news.arc.nasa.gov> <21fjti$hlp@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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In article <21fjti$hlp@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) writes:
>When you are running xdm from within /etc/rc.local, I don't think the
>nodaemon mode is applicable. I think you have to completely disable the
>getty on the console by turning it off in /etc/ttys.
ttys(5) mentions that the ttys file can be used for starting window systems.
That's exactly what I've done here on cleese, and I've never had an xdm
lockup:
From /etc/ttys:
vga "/usr/X386/bin/xdm -nodaemon" pc3 on secure
- mark
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