Yea, I just discovered the concept of virtual consoles and why I don't even need to turn xdm off. I always wondered what all those ttyv's were . . . Anyway, I'm running this on a laptop, with a dual boot with WinME, so I shutdown and reboot a lot. The Ctrl+Alt+F* commands work well. Thanks for your help.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ted Spradley Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]XDM Problems Anant wrote: > > I had it set to start on bootup through /etc/ttys, but then I switched > it so that it starts whenever I want it to. Both ways, it still won't > run more than once. I'm gonna try Ctrl+Alt+F7 or something else as > someone posted and see if that works. One more thing, the reason you don't want to start xdm from a shell prompt. Anyone who comes along can kill it, e.g., Ctl+Alt+Backspace will kill the X server, and take xdm along with it. That will leave your root shell just sitting there with an open inviting #. Wasn't much point in having xdm put up a login prompt, was there? If you turn it "on" in /etc/ttys, then init will make sure it gets restarted if it should ever die (e.g. as above, somebody kills the X server). If init should ever fail, the kernel panics, still no root prompt. Now you may think "It's my computer in my home, nobody's gonna just walk in and root it." And that's probably safe. I stay logged in to my home computer all the time, so anybody (my kids) could just walk up to it and help themselves. But not as root. Don't get in the habit of using root for anything you don't need it for. pkg_add sudo, put yourself in the wheel group and in the sudoers file, and learn to use it. It's just good hygiene, like washing your hands often. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
