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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!wupost!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: help needed with X386 In-Reply-To: grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de's message of Fri, 7 Aug 1992 08:26:16 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Aug10133742@kappa.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1992Aug7.032219.4649@newshub.sdsu.edu> <4UT5PRN@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:37:42 GMT Lines: 12 In article <4UT5PRN@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de (Stefan Grefen) writes: In article <1992Aug7.032219.4649@newshub.sdsu.edu>, boyns@newshub.sdsu.edu (Mark Boyns) writes: [ Stuff deletet ] |> Also, when I try an use xdm it complains about not being able to create/lock |> the pid file, even when the file does not exist before it creates it. |> The pid file must exist with mode 0666. This seems to be a bug in 386BSD. xdm has a workaround for this bug in the next release, but for the meantime 'touch /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid' will workaround it. --