XDMCP installation

[Guest rgadiou]

Hi,

 

I've updated somes linuxbox of my laboratory from 8.2 to 9.0. All is fine excepted for the xdmcp configuration. most PC of the laboratory used the connection through a line /etc/X11/X -indirect hostname to get the chooser.

 

how to I get the same behaviour with the mandrake 9 as X is no more in /etc/inittab file but in the /etc/init.d/rc5.d/dm file

 

thank's for any help.

 

Roger GADIOU

[theYinYeti]

I can't be sure because I don't use Mdk9.0. But you should be able to:

- either delete the dm link from /etc/rc.d/rc5.d, and add the start of X in /etc/inittab, as it used to be (preferably at the end of the file);

- or modify the dm script (create a backup) in /etc/rc.d/init.d

 

Yves.

[Guest rgadiou]

hi,

 

I've tried these two possibilities.

 

it doesn't work, the chooser stops on errors and after a while, kdm is launched by the "/etc/X11/X -indirect hostname" command.

 

roger

[theYinYeti]

I don't know the -indirect switch. But did you try with the -query switch? It works like that:

/path/to/X -query 10.0.0.10

where you replace 10.0.0.10 with the chooser's machine IP.

 

Yves.

[qeldroma]

And you can change your inittab file, and kick away "dm".

Just take this:

#

# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up

#               the system in a certain run-level.

#

# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>

#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes

#



# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:

#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

#   1 - Single user mode

#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)

#   3 - Full multiuser mode

#   4 - unused

#   5 - X11

#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

#

id:5:initdefault:



# System initialization.

si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit



l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0

l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1

l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2

l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3

l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4

l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5

l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6



# Things to run in every runlevel.

ud::once:/sbin/update



# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now



# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes

# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.

# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your

# UPS connected and working correctly.

pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"



# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.

pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"





# Run gettys in standard runlevels

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1

2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2

3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3

4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4

5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5

6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6



# Run x from server in runlevel 5

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X -query server