XDMCP and starting XFree on boot

[Benjamin Walkenhorst]

Hello everybody,

I am currently trying to set up an XDMCP-remote-login. I have two
machines at home, but only one screen, so I want to be able to log into
both machines via xdm.

So far I've set up the headless machine to run xdm and added 
"*	CHOOSER	BROADCAST"
to Xacces on that machine. It works.

Now I want the desktop machine (the one that's running the X-Server) to
a) start xdm on boot (but without starting XFree) and
b) then start XFree an request a CHOOSER from the headless machine.

Both steps work fine, when done manually. 
But so far I've been unable to start both on boot. I've added the
following lines to /etc/rc.conf.local:

-----------------------
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect 192.168.0.1
-----------------------

When the system boots, I get an error message like
"/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm: command not found".
Then X starts up, I get the CHOOSER, and my local machine is even listed
- but when I want to log in on my local machine, all I get is an empty
screen. 
When I want to log into the remote machine, I get a login-screen, but
apparently the keyboard does not react. I cannot even switch to console,
the only keys that work are "Ctrl+Alt+Del"... 

The first part's probably easy: rc.conf.local is probably being run
before /usr is mounted. This explains why I can't login to the local
machine. 
But then... why is XFree fired up? I even get the CHOOSER, so it's even
run correctly... And in that case, xdm should work, too. Except for the
case that /usr was being mounted *while* rc.conf.local is being run -
which I find hard to believe. 
I'm really confused here... =)

I thought of writing rc-scripts for both services so they are started in
proper order... 
Are there solutions involving less work? 

Thank you very much,

Benjamin
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