Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!axion!toadflax!crouch
From: crouch@toadflax.axion.bt.co.uk (the man whose head expanded)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xdm on hp9000
Message-ID: <1098@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 17 Feb 89 12:00:34 GMT
Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk
Reply-To: crouch@axion.bt.co.uk
Lines: 24
Organisation: British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH UK

I'm trying to start xdm automatically on an hp9000 workstation. I've added
the line

/usr/bin/X11/xdm&

to /etc/rc.

However, I still get a login: prompt and xdm does not start up. I've tried
commenting out the entry for the console in /etc/inittab, but this makes no
difference. If I delete the entry for the console though, there is no login
prompt, but xdm still does not come up.

There are no entries in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors.

If I login at the prompt as root and then manually start xdm, everything is
hunnky dory.

Does anyone know how to get this to work on startup?

		Chris Rouch

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
crouch@axion.bt.co.uk                RT3124, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich
				     +44 473 646093