One of the packages that I maintain includes a daemon, pland, that is recommended to be started in users' .xsession file. Previously, after logout, the daemon just hung around and is therefore recommended to be started as pland -k, where the -k kills any existing pland before starting a new one. Another switch, invoked as pland -K, kills any existing pland and then exits without starting a new one. Dirk Eddelbuetel advised me to do something to kill pland on logout as it is a waste of resources so I thought that I could add "pland -K" to my .xsession as the last line so that when I quite my window manager (second last line), pland -K is invoked and any existing daemon is killed. I tried this but it does not work. Am I doing something wrong or is there another way to go about this? I suppose I could look at .logout but I would like to keep this in .xsession as it is an X app and that seems cleaner. Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated. My .xsession is below. Cheers, Colin.
-- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 23:46:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: one more on plan On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Colin> I don't exactly understand. Do you mean to add a line to kill pland > Colin> after the usual final line that starts a window manager so that on > Colin> logout you pland is killed? One could use pland -K > > Yes, that's what I mean. If you don't kill it, it hangs around for no good > reason. This doesn't work for me: cgowave-4-237:~$ more .xsession if [ -x /usr/lib/plan/pland ] ; then /usr/lib/plan/pland -k else echo "Can't find pland" fi xhost +$HOSTNAME.cgocable.net exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 /usr/lib/plan/pland -K cgowave-4-237:~$ pland -K works when you run it by hand, but not here - I always find telmerco's pland -k running when I log in as root afterwards. Can you see any thing wrong with the above? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
