On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Tam Doan wrote:

> Hoping someone can point me in the right direction or
> hopefully show me how its done. OK. I've got a NetBSD
> 1.5 box up and running everything seems to be OK but I
> want to be able to connect to the BSD box using xdmcp
> now what I did was just add xdm=YES and xfs=YES to
> /etc/rc.conf. The problem I'm having is that I don't
> want X to start on boot up, (it gives me a graphical
> login), just xdm
> I read the X help files on netbsd.org and to get it to
> run X automatically I should have the following in
> Xservers
>
>  :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt04
>
> so I hashed that line out and thought that would stop
> the X server from starting up on boot. It did but now
> xdm isn't starting, what am I doing wrong???? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated many thanks!!!

That should work. Are there any messages in /var/log/xdm? That file is
normally empty when there is no Xserver.


Frederick