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From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xdm from rc.local under SunOS 4.1
Message-ID: <9009262306.AA24967@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 26 Sep 90 23:06:46 GMT
Sender: toor@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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Hi,
   We run xdm from rc.local on our Sun 3/80's.  Over the weekend we
installed SunOS4.1 and since then xdm does not start up properly on reboot
of a machine --- no X server is started. Doing a ps shows that the parent
xdm is running but there is no child xdm and no X server.  If I then kill
that xdm and invoke another one manually it comes up fully (With the X
server running and a login widget displayed).

I know sun changed something with the environment the rc scripts are run in
but how would that stop xdm from working properly?

cheers
mark