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- From: mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (--)
- Subject: xdm -nodaemon: OK from command line, not rc.local
- Message-ID: <9212182130.aa05024@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Lines: 29
- Date: 19 Dec 92 05:30:51 GMT
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- I'm running SLS .98p5. Everything works OK when I run xdm -nodaemon
- from the command line.
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- I then tried xdm -nodaemon at the bottom of rc.local. I first
- commented out the first getty in /etc/inittab. After rebooting,
- the xlogin window comes up, and I log in as root. Cool.
-
- Then my .xsession executes, setting the color of the root window
- putting up xclock, putting up two xter... WAIT... WHERE ARE MY TWO
- XTERMS? So I try the Xterm selection in the twm menu. Nothing.
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- Later, I check my .xsession-errors file, and it looks like I have a
- line for each failed attempt to start an xterm. The line reads:
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- Xterm: Error 19, error 14: no such device.
-
- (I'm away from home, so this is from memory. I'm quite sure those
- are the error numbers.)
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- Somebody out there must have xdm up and running from rc, rc.local,
- or wherever. I'd appreciate if you could fill me in on what you
- had to do to set things up. Thanks in advance.
-
- - Mike
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- Michael Lo
- mlo@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
-