Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!husc8!edwards From: edwards@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Bill Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: starting X-windows from init on VaxStation Message-ID: <1667@husc6.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 15:24:37 EST Article-I.D.: husc6.1667 Posted: Tue Apr 14 15:24:37 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 04:33:20 EST Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: edwards@husc8.UUCP (Bill Edwards) Distribution: world Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 14 Keywords: xterm, getty, X Summary: how do you do it? I am trying to set up a VaxStation 2000 running Ultrix 2.0 to run X-windows from init, and am having no luck. I am using Ver. 10 Rev. 4 of X. Has anybody succeeded in starting X up from init? Invoking '/usr/new/xterm -L' instead of '/etc/getty ...' yields the error message 'xterm open failed : No such file or directory'. What else does one need to do? How should the 'window=' option be employed? If this has been covered in this newsgroup already, please simply email responses. Thanks very much. -- Bill Edwards ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Edwards edwards@harvard.harvard.edu (ARPA) UNIX Systems Programmer/Analyst ...!harvard!edwards (UUCP) Harvard Science Center edwards@harvunxu (BITNET) 1 Oxford Street hucsc::edwards (DECNET) Cambridge, MA 02138