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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: 19 Jan 1997 10:39:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5bstku$8vt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59hhmc$k0n@nntp1.best.com> <59hps5$olt@nntp.stanford.edu> <32BCF6AD.3F02@www.play-hookey.com> <59sv10$26@nntp1.best.com> <5a18hd$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5bns61$chu@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> 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 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34236 dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr David Henshaw) wrote: > >If you're using the above, you could start xdm without any arguments > >(i.e., in daemon mode) from /etc/rc.local. > > Why is this the 'prefered' way of starting X and xdm ???? > Is there some kind of security hole ??? Not security, but you'll get seriously hosed if for some reason your Xserver doesn't start properly. init will restart it over and over again. xdm to the contrary, will give up after 3 or 5 attempts. > I have tried this approach only to find that the keyboard is locked > when xdm daemonizes.... Then something else is wrong. Are you sure you have edited xdm's Xservers file so the server has been started on vt04? Otherwise, it competes with the gettys on the first availabe VTY. -- 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. ;-)