xdm, was Re: Accepting external sendmail on 2.0.2

From: Frederick Bruckman (fredb_at_immanent.net)
Date: 07/17/05

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    Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:24:31 -0500

    In article <daual9$c44$1@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>,
            Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> writes:
    > Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
    >>
    > I run it on the past, but I am not running xdm now. I found it
    > buggy on NetBSD/i386 [*].
    >
    > [*] I think that the console window on xdm is responsible for these
    > ugly "respawning too fast" messages, and I am too lazy to comment
    > it on the xdm configuration files. :-)
    >
    > Should I run xdm again? I certainly believe that it is useful,
    > and I read in the system documentation that it should be enabled
    > by default on production machines with X servers. Perhaps it is
    > better spending some time to fix the xdm configuration files instead
    > of starting Motif with "startx" from command-line. What do you think?

    I think you shouldn't run an X server and a getty on the same
    virtual console. On i386, you enable virtual consoles by setting
    "wscons=YES" in "/etc/rc.conf". The X server will start on vt05
    by default, if its configured, but occasionally the X server wins
    the race with wscons and starts on the wrong virtual console, so
    its better to add "vt05" to the "Xservers" start up file. As in:

        tail -2 /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

        #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt05 -nolisten tcp
        :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt05

    I guess it's not the default, because it wouldn't work on ports
    that don't have virtual consoles. 

    -- 
Frederick
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