kdm on bootup

[Chris]

Daniel Bye wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0500, Chris wrote:
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>>On Friday 27 June 2003 03:18 am, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
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>>>On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote:
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>>>>Hiya -
>>>>
>>>>	What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what
>>>>might that line look like.
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>>>The file you have to change is /etc/ttys
>>>
>>>The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this:
>>>
>>>ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure
>>>
>>>So you probably just have to replace "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" with
>>>the path to kdm plus options you want to give.
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>>>
>>Odd, on my 4.8 box - I did this. Didn't/dosn't work. Unless instead of just 
>>using tty8, I add that to 1 - 7 perhaps?
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>No - did you also change "off" to "on"?  Tell your kernel to reread
>/etc/ttys (among others):
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> # kill -HUP 1
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Ahhh, my bad,. I didn't set the "off" to "on". Thanks much to all that 
offered me answers on this one.

Chris


>and, provided you got your command line right, {k,x}dm will start.
>Your character terminals will still be available by hitting CTRL-ALT-Fn.
>
>Dan
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Best regards,
                 Chris
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