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Old 21st October 2009
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Default Starting xdm and famd for Xfce 4.6.1 in 5.0.1 i386

I installed the modular Xorg and the meta-pkg Xfce4 and am having 2 issues.
1) setting
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xdm=YES xdm_flags=""
in rc.conf does not start the login manager. I have checked and xdm and xinit are installed although the usual files (Xsetup.0, etc) are missing from /etc/X11. I can start xdm from the command line.

2) The documentation in /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/fam indicates 2 ways to start the fam daemon. I am more familiar with starting using /etc/rc.d and found a famd.sh in /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/fam/files. I tried running famd.sh with
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sh famd.sh
thinking that this would write famd to /etc/rc.d/famd. This didn't work as it did not generate /etc/rc.d/rc.famd, Am I mistaking famd.sh as the
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provided famd rc.d(8) script
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link to famd.sh

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Old 22nd October 2009
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Concerning the famd, try copying the famd.sh to /etc/rc.d/ and add the following to /etc/rc.conf:
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famd=YES
Do everything else that MESSAGE tells you to and then try starting the famd. For internals of NetBSD rc.d mechanism see the rc(8) man page and following:

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-rc.html

I don't know about xmd, are there any errors in /var/log/messages?
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One thing more, simply copying the famd.sh to /etc/rc.d/ directory wont cut it, you also need to make small modification to the file (two marked lines):
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#!/bin/sh                             # Old value: #!@RCD_SCRIPTS_SHELL@
#
# $NetBSD: famd.sh,v 1.2 2008/01/09 21:17:32 wiz Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: famd
# REQUIRE: DAEMON rpcbind
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name="famd"
rcvar=$name
command="/usr/pkg/sbin/famd"           # Old value: "@PREFIX@/sbin/famd"
command_args="-T 0 -L &"

load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"
Then just enable rpcbind in /etc/rc.conf, as MESSAGE suggest you do, and start famd.
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The famd now starts. Thanks. I think I found the problem with xdm - there was a message that /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config was not found and when I look the /etc/X11/xdm directory is empty. I am going to try to copy those files overfrom /usr/pkg/lib/X11/xdm and give it a try and I'll report back with an edit.

The problem with xdm was the missing files. I built the modular xorg from source an I suspect that there may be a problem with the build scripts.

One more thing to iron out but it probably deserves a new thread for future searches

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