Re: XDM

[Nils Philippsen <nils wombat dialup fht-esslingen de>]

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Matthew Berg wrote:

> It sounds like you're still running xdm rather than gdm.  I'll give you
> the procedure I used.  I'm not sure if it is the way the author intended
> but it works.  :)
> 
> You need to go into /usr/etc/gdm and edit gdm.conf to include 
> 
> 	[servers]
> 	0=/usr/bin/X11/X
> 
> And then go into /etc and comment out the following line in inittab
> 
> 	x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
> 
> Then create a file gdm in /etc/rc.d/init.d with the following line 
> 
> 	gdm

No. Just copy the commented line, replace xdm with gdm, uncomment it again
:-) and enjoy(*). Don't mess around with start scripts if you don't know
what you do (they have to adhere to certain standards in order for you to
be happy).

(*): For these changes to take effect, do this as root:

telinit q
killall xdm

Nils
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