> Subject: XDM under XFree86-4.1.0 behaving strangely?
>
> Greetings, all!
>
> When I have xdm start automagically from /etc/rc, the keyboard refuses
> to respond; when I start it manually (via login as xdm), it behaves
> fine.
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
no. i have 4.1.0 without problem

#!/bin/sh
#
# $NetBSD: xdm,v 1.4.4.2 2000/10/02 01:09:52 lukem Exp $
#

# PROVIDE: xdm
# REQUIRE: DAEMON LOGIN wscons
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name="xdm"
rcvar=$name
command="/usr/X11R6/bin/${name}"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}-pid"
                        ^^^^
here was "." and should be - with 4.1.0 - but it shouldn't be your
problem.

required_files="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config"
extra_commands="reload"

load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"