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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntp.uio.no!news.kth.se!tybalt.admin.kth.se!merope.saaf.se!electra.saaf.se!not-for-mail From: gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to start the chooser in X-windows Date: 28 May 1997 23:16:41 +0200 Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening Lines: 48 Message-ID: <5mi7bp$6f8@electra.saaf.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: electra.saaf.se Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41794 I am running several FreeBSD boxes and want to be able to logg into any box on the network. For that I want the X-window program "chooser" started (by xdm) instead of the ordinary login. I do this by first comment in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers ... #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X ... Then I start xdm in /etc/ttys with the usual command ... ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure ... Then I start the X-server in rc.local with the command /usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect my.system.name & This works but if the X-server fails I have to restart it manualy. Does anyone have a better idea? NOTE! You must be carefull when experimenting with this. I you start X with the "-indirect" switch and someting goes wrong - you vill have a X-server restarting over and over and it is hard to get a sane console! Try everyting by hand first before you put it into files for atomatic start. Please drop me a mail. GH -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Göran Hasse gh@saaf.se Tel: +46 8 7730148 Raditex AB http://www.raditex.se Fax: +46 8 7730902 Kungsgatan 71 Minicall: 0740-167443 112 27 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN