RE: KDM and FreeBSD?

From: Chris (racerx_at_makeworld.com)
Date: 10/04/03

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    To: "Alex de Kruijff" <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>, <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:43:12 -0500

    Change this in /etc/ttys file - reboot, live happy.

    ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Alex de Kruijff
    > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:38 PM
    > To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com
    > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > Subject: Re: KDM and FreeBSD?
    >
    >
    > > Hey all,
    > >
    > > I'm a huge nut of the CLI, but my girlfriend is not. I've gone
    > through a
    > > bunch of the documentation on
    > >
    > http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/kdm/Configuring-your-system-for
    -kdm.html
    > and have gotten as far as test whether I can run
    >
    > grog# kdm -nodeamon
    >
    > and I get a KDE login screen after a few breif seconds. Now, how do I
    > implement this so that kdm initalizes at boot so my gf can use my FreeBSD
    > system without having to type what is, in her words, some "arcane fucking
    > command from the old world of DOS."

    Any script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ gets started at boot time. A script
    usaly has a "echo -n 'script name'" that print a message at boot time. 

    --
Alex
Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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