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From: rich@id.tmc.edu (Rich Murphey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 rel. xdm-des won't login
Date: 26 Nov 1993 20:11:43 GMT
Organization: Physiology & Biophysics, UT Medical Branch
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Message-ID: <RICH.93Nov26141244@id.tmc.edu>
References: <1993Nov22.075226.24701@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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In-reply-to: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu's message of Mon, 22 Nov 93 07:52:26 GMT

In article <1993Nov22.075226.24701@serval.net.wsu.edu> msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
|I've just gotten the XFree 2.0 downloaded and upacked.  One MAJOR
|problem.  When I fire up xdm-des (linked as xdm) I try to log in and it
|won't let me.

xdm loggs it's error messages to /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors.
Take a look at there for info on what it's doing.  Rich