On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0500, 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. > > 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?
No - did you also change "off" to "on"? Tell your kernel to reread
/etc/ttys (among others):
# kill -HUP 1
and, provided you got your command line right, {k,x}dm will start.
Your character terminals will still be available by hitting CTRL-ALT-Fn.
Dan
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