On Monday 17 April 2006 08:46, Colin Percival wrote:
> Is there any reason why kdm is traditionally started via
> /etc/ttys (as in http://freebsd.kde.org/faq.php#q11),
> rather than by an rc.d script?  With a perfectly generic
> kdm.sh script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and kdm_enable="YES"
> in /etc/rc.conf, everything seems to work properly, and
> this fits far better with the traditional FreeBSD ports
> startup mechanisms.

I guess it starts up via /etc/ttys for the same reason it starts up in 
Linux via /etc/inittab: tradition.

/etc/ttys is where xdm gets started, and so it makes some small sense to 
start kdm there as well. But I see no reason why you can't have it 
started with an rc.d script either. 

-- 
David Johnson
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