Re: login window won't appear

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From: Mark Adler
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:37

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(Email to jcd@punch.aero.org bounced, so I'm posting.)

>> the system goes through all the system test but does'nt give me a  
>> login panel?

Well, I know what I did to get that to happen.  I added some options
to loginwindow in the /etc/ttys file to set PowerOffDisabled True,
precisely as recommended in the NeXT documentation.  It turns out
that there is a line length limit in that file, which I exceeded, and
loginwindow simply failed to run.  I removed the option (in single
user mode), and it worked.

I put the option in root's defaults instead, and that works far
better.

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu

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From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: login window won't appear
Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:37:10 GMT
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