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From: "Stephen D. Spencer" <gladiatr@sunflower.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xdm.........Going round in circles!
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:21:32 -0500
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Dirc,

Greetings.  Look in the .xsession-errors file in your user directory.
This will usually display the sorts of errors that result in getting
dumped back to the login prompt.

Regards,
Stephen


 On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Dirc Evans wrote:

> [...] 
> However, when I try to use xdm, I get the logon screen, and when I logon,
> it all loads up.....a few xterms amd the clock etc, and then it shuts down
> again and opens up the logon screen..I can never get it working. Like xdm,
> the man pages all seem to go round in circles..everything depends on
> something else and it is all as clear as mud.
> [...] 

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