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- From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
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- Subject: Re: xdm -nodaemon: OK from command line, not rc.local
- Message-ID: <DELMAN.92Dec19132348@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 18:23:48 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU's message of 19 Dec 92 05:30:51 GMT
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- In article <9212182130.aa05024@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (--) writes:
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- I'm running SLS .98p5. Everything works OK when I run xdm -nodaemon
- from the command line.
-
- 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.
- [...]
-
- Read in the FAQ of comp.windows.x.i386unix that you need to provide a
- tty to xdm when running from /etc/rc.local. e.g. "xdm < /dev/console &"
-
- Delman.
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