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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xdm causing getty repeating too quickly? Date: 30 Apr 1996 15:23:28 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4m57p0$o3@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4lug3j$jhn@linet06.li.net> <4m0jk2$4gg@linet06.li.net> <4m3eju$3db@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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 alternatively, do a 'trap "" 1' before running it. : 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. ;-) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....