kdm on bootup

Malcolm Kay malcolm.kay at internode.on.net
Fri Jun 27 08:56:33 PDT 2003


On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:28, Chris wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2003 03:18 am, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
> > On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote:
> > > Hiya -
> > >
> > > 	What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what
> > > might that line look like.
> >
> > 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.

And change the 'off' to 'on'

>
> 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?
>

Malcolm Kay


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list