Bug 155242

Summary:	bsd compatibility status requested
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	John Hendrickson <johndhend>
Component:	Advocacy	Assignee:	freebsd-advocacy (Nobody) <advocacy>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description John Hendrickson 2011-03-03 21:50:08 UTC

Hi.  I'm a BSD idiot.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I looked at BSD rc.d things.  But you know I've never ran BSD - not sure why is good or bad compared to [Debian] linux.  It looks like there may be allot I don't know even if I read it / tried to research it.

I'm trying to release the below in a way in which any BSD users can use if they so please.  Maybe it's not worth showing others.  see for yourself if that's an issue.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/

(an xdm "sample config" suite but complete "round trip": chooser, login, desktop chooser, xdm server: by menus no hacking req. is the release hope)

It needs /etc/inittab (launch X display by it's sh script).

It needs /etc/rc.d (start the xdm server by it's sh script).

I looked at BSD rc.d things.  But you know I've never ran BSD - not sure why is good or bad compared to [Debian] linux.

Any advice?

Comment 1 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2011-03-08 06:06:11 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Hello, thank you for using FreeBSD! You might consider to 
contact the x11@freebsd.org mailinglist so that they might 
point you whether this is OK or not or possibly the ports@freebsd.org 
mailinglist instead. Since this is not a problem report I 
will close this PR. 

Thanks