On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > 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. > <SNIP> > 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 >
The problem is that when you say 'exec whatever', the process that's parsing this file doesn't just create a subprocess to execute fvwm2, and then wait for the subprocess's completion; instead the process _becomes_ a process executing that 'whatever'. Among other things, this means that it completely forgets about this file. The solution is to remove the word 'exec'. (so that that line simply reads '/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2') This causes one extra process to be sitting around while you're using X, but that shouldn't be too much overhead. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
