guidelines for installation of MIT X11R4 on DECstation 5000

Michel Fingerhut fingerhu at ircam.fr
Wed Apr 24 17:01:13 AEST 1991


We removed UWS altogether.  As to the console mode, we have *two* potential
/etc/ttys files, one called /etc/ttys.X11, with the line

    console	"/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off	secure	# console terminal

and one called /etc/ttys.noX11 with:

    console	"/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 on	secure	# console terminal

while the startup code in /etc/rc.local looks like:

    if [ -f /usr/local/bin/X11/xdm -a -f /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config ]
    then
	cp /etc/ttys.X11 /etc/ttys
	/usr/local/bin/X11/xdm -config /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config;
	echo -n ' xdm'						>/dev/console
    else
	cp /etc/ttys.noX11 /etc/ttys
    fi

You can obviously refine this to allow for recovery if launching xdm fails, etc.



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