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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xdm causing getty repeating too quickly? Date: 29 Apr 1996 22:07:58 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4m3eju$3db@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4lug3j$jhn@linet06.li.net> <4m0jk2$4gg@linet06.li.net> <31841162.41C67EA6@servtech.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com> writes: >John W. Carbone wrote: >> ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodeamon" xterm on secure >xdm wants "-nodaemon". You need to transpose the 'e' and 'a'. All this starting xdm via /etc/ttys seems to be ugly. It's been a crock to work around some other problem, but IMNSHO, you're better off starting it from /etc/rc.local instead. Simply run it there without any flags, so it properly daemonizes itself. If xdm is the last command in your rc.local, perhaps add a ``sleep 1'' after it, so it's got some time to change its session before the rc shell terminates (so it doesn't get accidentally killed). It's always a good idea to specify the VTY where the Xserver should be started on in your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file. Mine looks like: # some commentary :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt08 Apart from this, it should work fine. Once you've told your xdm to no longer respawn a new local Xserver (by typing Control-R in the login window), you have to send it a SIGHUP to restart the server again. Otherwise, xdm remains running in the background and listening to network (XDMCP) requests, but doesn't try to start a local server again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)