I think it says in ip-up (the sript, not the directory) that all of the
scripts are run with minimal (or even no) environment. So DISPLAY
probably IS set, but ip-up is run without any of these variables.
The wierdness here is not X or linux in general. It's the way pppd and
ip-up work.
-Michael
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, John Leget wrote:
>
>I ran into similar problems fortunately i had had some trouble with junkbuster
>( one
>way of looking at it <grin>) and remembered seeing the following in the
>"/etc/init.d/junkbuster"
>startup script
>
>"su nobody -c <command>"
>
>so i tried this
>
>"su myself -c <proggy to launch>"
>
>and found it complained about not knowing where the X display was
>so i set "DISPLAY=:0" ( in the script i set up for it ) and tried again and it
>worked
>fine.
>
>Im just wondering - wouldnt it be an idea to have the DISPLAY variable set
>when X is
>launched. ( And yes i know its possible to run multiple X servers but id
>assume those
>able to set that up would figure the rest out easily, me im just learning to
>crawl in
>linux >;0) )
>
>Cheers
>
>Daniel Mashao wrote:
>
>> On 23 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
>>
>> > Daniel Mashao writes:
>> > > Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what
>> > > is happenning.
>> >
>> > Sure. Put this in your script:
>> >
>> > echo Running > /etc/ppp/running
>> >
>> > and the string 'Running' will appear in the file /etc/ppp/running if the
>> > script executes.
>> Thanks I did all these tests and indeed the scripts are running. I still
>> have to figure out how to have xnetload to load immediately after pppd
>> starts. It seems to be a problem with the display settings and path.
>>
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