Starting kdm

[Eric Schuele]

stan wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out the current way (on a 4.11 STABLE machine)
> of having kdm startup on boot. Surpisingly neither the handbook,
> nor a Google search really led me anywhere on this, and I don't
> see a script for this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> 
> Do I put it in /etc/tys? If so what's teh proper invocation?
> 

Handbook reads (I assume it applies to 4.11 as well):

5.7.3.1 The KDE Display Manager
...
<snip lots>
...
Now, make sure kdm is listed in /etc/ttys to be started at the next 
bootup. To do this, simply follow the instructions from the previous 
section on XDM and replace references to the /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm program 
with /usr/local/bin/kdm.

"Previous Section" reads:
5.6.2 Using XDM

The XDM daemon program is located in /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm. This program 
can be run at any time as root and it will start managing the X display 
on the local machine. If XDM is to be run every time the machine boots 
up, a convenient way to do this is by adding an entry to /etc/ttys. For 
more information about the format and usage of this file, see Section 
21.3.2.1. There is a line in the default /etc/ttys file for running the 
XDM daemon on a virtual terminal:

ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure

By default this entry is disabled; in order to enable it change field 5 
from off to on and restart init(8) using the directions in Section 
21.3.2.2. The first field, the name of the terminal this program will 
manage, is ttyv8. This means that XDM will start running on the 9th 
virtual terminal.


HTH


-- 
Regards,
Eric