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From: bjaspan@athena.mit.EDU ("Barr3y Jaspan")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem running xdm from init
Message-ID: <9101032316.AA10373@beeblebrox.MIT.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 91 23:16:37 GMT
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When I run xdm from the command line (logged in remotely to the
machine as root), giving it nothing but a -config option, everything
works fine.  If xdm is run from init with exactly the same -config
option, problems occur.  xdm doesn't seem to read the X resources file
specified in the config file; so, for example, the login window
*always* has "Welcome to the X Window System" in it (even though we
have changed that in the resource file).

If, instead of running xdm directly from init, I run a csh script that
runs xdm (again with the same -config option) but with stdin, stdout,
and stderr all assigned to /dev/null, everything works fine.

I have done some hacking on xdm source before, but would much rather
not.  Any have a clue what's going on?

Barr3y Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu