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Re: No config file found?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Feb 3 16:17:04 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:13:07 -0500
To: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> In addition, thou shalt be sure to start x as root after changing
> the dm line in /etc/ttys to on.
No, that's not right.
> Thou shalt not take the failure to startx as root before changing
> this line to mean that thou shalt not startx as root.
Huh? That has absolutely nothing to do with it.
startx should always work if there is no X server running,
irregardless of the state of /etc/ttys.
Changing /etc/ttys and HUPing init will cause xlogin and X
to be started together, and kept running.
These are independant, largely unrelated processes.
--jhawk
