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- From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
- Subject: Re: Can't get xdm to work - help wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.213202.638@uts.cc.wayne.edu>
- Keywords: xdm
- Organization: Wayne State Univ.
- References: <alb.24.716133148@uvm.edu> <1992Sep10.181826.21305@schbbs.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:32:02 GMT
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- > Would some kind soul please explain to me how to get xdm to work on AIX 3.2,
- > X11R4? The documentation is sketchy, and the support center doesn't do
- > X windows, apparently. My local SE does them even less :).
- >
- > Basically, I've got the daemon running, and all of the config files are in
- > /usr/lib/X11/xdm. I have no entries in my Xservers file, as the system in
- > question is a fileserver, and our Xterm 130's do XDMCP. From my
- > understanding of the manpage, I don't need any entries with this
- > configuration.
- >
- > I get a login window, and the login authentication works fine. However,
- > after a successful login, there is a pause, a blink, and the login
- > screen is presented again. This can be repeated any number of times.
- >
- > My config files are very plain-vanilla. Rebooting the @#$%@% Xterm every
- > time I log out is getting very old indeed; I'd like to get xdm working.
- >
- > -------------------------------------
- > Allan Bazinet, University of Vermont
- > 'We look for things -- to make us go.'
-
- There should also be a log file called /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors. I was
- having a different problem with xdm (I've got it working now, and it's
- great!!!), and the xdm-errors file listed everything that was going on.
- It might be able to help you also.
-