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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Exact syntax for placing XDM in ttys?? Date: 2 Feb 1996 17:51:47 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4etivj$cva@helena.MT.net> References: <4eltl6$jbj@epcot.pomona.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4eltl6$jbj@epcot.pomona.edu>, John Sinnott <john@osiris.pomona.edu> wrote: >Hello! > > I was wondering if anyone could tell me the syntax for placing XDM >in the /etc/ttys file. It's in the README.FreeBSD file in the XFree86 distribution. Why is it that no-one reads the instructions? :) Anyway, rather than being a jerk and making you go look it up, here's the exact syntax. # X console ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > I would do this for the console entry I suspect. You suspect wrongly. >And I also want to access the FreeBSD box from XTerminals, but once I get XDM >up and running that should be no problem. Accessing it from XTerminals is irrelevant to having XDM running, unless you want the X-Terminals to boot from your FreeBSD box. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth