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- From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris)
- Subject: Re: xdm and login
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- Keywords: xdm /etc/ttys login
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:47:27 PST
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- kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
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-
- >I'm looking for a method to use xdm to come up on my system permanently
- >in a fashion similar to the way it's done on most systems, e.g. Ultrix:
-
- I'm running with xdm permanently running now. Modify /etc/ttys to run
- xdm instead of getty on the console. Next, modify your xdm-config file
- to contain the following:
-
- DisplayManager.daemonMode: false
-
- This prevents xdm from detaching itself as a daemon. If you fail to do
- this, init forks off many many copies of xdm, all of which try to start
- up X -- not a pretty sight, let me tell you from my own experience.
-
- That's it. I did see a note from someone a while ago with a recommendation
- to start xdm from a shell script something like this:
-
- #! /bin/sh
- xdm
- stty raw
- sleep 99999999
-
-
- For some reason, this didn't work correctly for me. I've had no problems
- so far with the first method.
-
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