bjaspan@athena.mit.EDU ("Barr3y Jaspan") (01/04/91)
When I run xdm from the command line (logged in remotely to the machine as root), giving it nothing but a -config option, everything works fine. If xdm is run from init with exactly the same -config option, problems occur. xdm doesn't seem to read the X resources file specified in the config file; so, for example, the login window *always* has "Welcome to the X Window System" in it (even though we have changed that in the resource file). If, instead of running xdm directly from init, I run a csh script that runs xdm (again with the same -config option) but with stdin, stdout, and stderr all assigned to /dev/null, everything works fine. I have done some hacking on xdm source before, but would much rather not. Any have a clue what's going on? Barr3y Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu