On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

: 	I wasn't really of that as a fix since what I am considering
: broken is the action where xdm automatically find the first non-used tty
: and uses it.  Having to hardcode a tty in Xservers obviously is not
: automatic.  

Hacking around one of the core parts of the BSD system isn't worth the gain
of "automatically" getting a tty.  I quoted "automatically" because
truthfully, it's not automatic at all--it depends entirely on what you have
in /etc/ttys.  The first free tty is still determined by what gettys you
have enabled there. 

Another fix was proposed: put "xdm -nodaemon" in /etc/ttys on a free tty.
Technically this, _without_ having to modify Xservers, should have X pick a
free tty automatically.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)