In article <20000328081548.A1118@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>,
Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 09:23:32PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> 
> > } # PROVIDE: atalkd
> > } # REQUIRE: xdm
> > 
> > Silly question, but why is a filesystem daemon dependent on an X daemon?
> 
> The atalkd stuff takes an obscenely long time to return, so I did this in
> order to be able to log in via X without having to wait.

It should start in the background then.

christos