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Re: cannot get XDM on remote RH 8
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, amr roushi wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:22:48PM +0100, amr roushi wrote:
> >
> >>I am running on W2K with XF86 and running fine with AIX & SUSE I get the
> >>xdm login via
> >> xwin :0 -query hostname -from hostnameHere .
> >>all addresses are resolveable and XDM enabled .
> >>when doing this to the redhat Nothing happens and also nothing in the
> >>XF86 log .
> >
> > Is xdm actually running on the Redhat system? On most Linux systems
> > it isn't started by default I don't think, I usually add it to the
> > rc.local file.
> >
> Chris thank u for the hint can u give me the line to add in rc.local
> and where it is
> thks agin for ur help
> amr
Amr,
You might want to take a look at
<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#xdmcp> and
<http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/>... To check whether xdm is
running, you can use "ps -ef | grep '[gkx]dm'". If it is running, check
/var/log/messages to see if there are any complaints.
Igor
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