[ale] XDM

[Steve DuChene]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:25:26PM -0400, Ken Nagorski wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> 	I am trying to set up XDM on an Oracle server. (Did I mention the
> installation is lame) Regardless. I am not using th display on the
> server, fact it's at a data center somewhere. I want to get a XDM login
> (chooser) on my machine running Exceed. I can export the Display and start
> like Xman or somehting, I even did the Oracle install however I would like
> to get it set up so that XDM does not start the chooser on the local
> machine and starts up on my machine running Exceed. 
> 
> 	I commented out the line that read :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X and
> added a line that read laptop:0 foreign to the Xservers file, laptop of

Just leave the laptop:0 line out. It will just screw things up.

> course is in the /etc/hosts file. Now when from the command line I type
> xdm I see it is running with ps aux | grep xdm but I don't get a login. 
> 
> 	Anyone with some X experience got any hints for me. I mean it
> seems so totally easy, there isn't there. 
> 

If on another machine with real X installed you start the Xserver with the
following line:

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query Oracle_server

What do you get them?
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Steven A. DuChene	sad at valinux.com
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