On 2003.11.11 11:37, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Woellert, Kirk D. wrote: > > > We are not running NAT. All firewalls are turned off completely (linux and > > Win). We are all on the same network segment, and all have the same IP scope > > (i.e. 137.x.x.x). > > > > I tried to get debug running as requested but, as a new linux user its not > > straightforward to figure out how to stop kdm/gdm/xdm or whatever RH9 uses, > > and restart it again. I looked at the post you cited and searched the net > > also. "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" returns command not found. I tried several > > iterations but no avail. So finally I did "xdm -debug 10 -no daemon", got a > > fatal server error, did some grep's and here is the followoing: > > maybe /etc/init.d./gdm stop
I'm running cygwin/xfree (on w2k) to RedHat, and I've found you need to do 'telinit 3' followed by 'telinit 5' as root from a console to get gdm to restart. > > [debug] > > # This will enable debugging into the syslog, usually not neccessary > > # and it creates a LOT of spew of random stuff to the syslog. However it > > # can be useful in determining when something is going very wrong. > > Enable=false > > Set this to true. Most likely gdm will create a logfile in > /var/log/gdm That's right, that change is the only thing I had to do on the RedHat side. As to the log file, right again - here is what I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -ltr /var/log/gdm .... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 2003 winnie.riede.org:0.log .... Success, Willem Riede.
