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From: bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten Whimster)
Subject: Re: Q: which FAQ or how to set up X to run automatically?
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 15:12:42 GMT
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In article <imburaqk7x.fsf@crater.cs.uidaho.edu>,
Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> wrote:
| In article <DGp96t.FA0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten Whimster) writes:
|
| $ I have FreeBSD 2.0.5 installed, and want to set it up to run X
| $ automatically, while still allowing me to drop back to text-only mode.
| $ How do I go about doing this, or which file do I read thast explains
| $ this?
|
| Okay, this is what I've done. I _can't_ remember exactly which of the XFree
| distribution files I've installed, but I'm guessing I got almost everything
| (I had a lot of disk space).
|
| a) I got X, and xdm working.
| I didn't have to frob /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/*; you may need to.
| b) I edited /etc/ttys. Look at ttyv1:
|
| # @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
| #
| # name getty type status comments
| #
| # This entry needed for asking password when init goes to single-user mode
| # If you want to be asked for password, change "secure" to "insecure" here
| console none unknown off secure
| #
| ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
| # Virtual terminals
| ttyv1 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -auth -nodaemon" xterm on secure
| #ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
| ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
| ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
|
| c) I reread /etc/ttys (kill -1 1, or reboot).
|
|
|
| $ I need to be able to drop back to text-mode while root, but I would
| $ like to prevent other users from doing this. Basically, I would like
| $ xdm or something to run magically, I guess.
|
| I thought there was something in XF86Config for that, but I can't find
| it in the man page (for XFree 3.11). I'm not sure...
Ok, I'm going to try this. Yesterday I put xdm in my etc/rc.local
file, but using this method, Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc didn't kill xdm like I was
told it should, so I'll try this instead.
--
Carsten Whimster bcrwhims@uwaterloo.ca
EDM/2 Associate Editor and Book reviewer
Team OS/2 POV-Panel/2 author
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bcrwhims/