Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (668 mails)

[andyford@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Andy Ford)]

Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well look. Here goes andy replying to himself AGAIN :)
> > So in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 there's a line that says
> > # not reached
> > and guess where xbanner was? that's right andy, after that.
> > brilliant. Now I got the extra coolest login screen ever!
> > Course I still dont know why it doesn't "get reached".
> > Must be the "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -geometry
> > 480x130-0-0 \
> >      -daemon -notify -nostdin -verbose -exitOnFail".
> > But why?
> 
> ... there is no /etc/X11/xdm/ in S.u.S.E. Linux.
> Please use the traditional UNIX[tm] paths:
> 
>      /usr/lib/X11/xdm/
> 
> or for XFree86[tm]
> 
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/

actually I used to use the real path till i found this
symbolic link; must have come from the "eazy" pkg because it
sure is.

> 
> (hmmm ... maybe I should use symbolic links to catch the FHS ...
>  but IMHO FHS should not ignore traditional xdm paths)
> 
> Note: `exec' is a shell builtin which execute the following program
>       without forking ... this close bash and starts the program
>       with the pid of the former bash.  With this line I control
>       a error exit value of xconsole.

OOOOOhhhhh I see.
So I think the bottom line is that the Xbanner RPM needs to
be changed because it puts it's startup line in the wrong
pace: after
the "exec xconsole" line. I dunno what the solution would be
because it's probably too dangerous to have a RPM writing to
anything but the end of an important script (<---guess)

-- 
yours,
Andy
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