Collin Baillie wrote:

> Our computer club has recently salvaged a 5000/125 and a couple of DS
> 3100's from our Computer science department.
> 
> We have NetBSD 1.4.1 on the 5000/125 which has 32 MB RAM and a 2 GB disk.
> 
> We have just installed NetBSD 1.4.2  on to one of the DS3100's.
> 
> To save installing multiple copies of software onto all machines we want
> to install all the sofware we need onto the 5000/125 and then get the
> DS3100's to do an xdm -query to the 125.
> What files do I need to modify to achieve this ?

It looks like we don't have anything at the moment to do exactly that.

You could add somethine like the following (completely untested!)
to /etc/rc.local:


	if checkyesno xserver; then
		if [ -z "$xdmhost" ]; then
			echo WARNING: xdmhost variable not set
		else
			echo "Start X server, xdm from $xdmhost"
			( while true; do
				/usr/X11R6/bin/X $xserver_flags -direct $xdmhost
			done ) &
		fi
	fi

and then add to /etc/rc.conf:

	xserver=YES
	xdmhost=<your-xdm-hostname>

If you get this happily working please post your script - we should
add something like this to our base tree.  A better version of the
changes would allow for using a different X server and using indirect
XDMCP queries as well as direct queries.  The work to do this for the
up-and-coming 1.5 release would be easier since the /etc/rc framework
is more modular.

Good luck!

Simon.
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