At 11:15 AM 9/16/98 -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
>
>On 16-Sep-98 nm spoke unto us all:
>#  I have an NCD17c XTerm set up and when xdm starts up initially
>#  I get my nifty login: on the XTerm, but if I turn the XTerm off
>#  and then back on, (reboot it) then I never get the little
>#  login: prompt until I HUP xdm :(
>#  
>#  here is the line I added to my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file
>#  skylight:0 foreign
>
>I'm not very wizardly with the NCD's.. but with my own xterm-like hosts
here...

well gandalf you got it...
i rm'd that line out and then made sure that my XTerm was set at broadcast
it works fine now :)

Thanks,
Nick Maniscalco


>I turn them all on "broadcast" mode, and leave them out of the Xservers
file. 
>The way you have it now puts xdm in directo control of that terminal, and it
>must manually start a session with it.  Setting things to broadcast mode, and
>setting xdm up to respond properly, puts the connection status in the
hands of
>the terminal.
>
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