Re: The XDM trap

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:

> a better solution would be for the xdm startup script to keep track of
> the time for the last, say, 5 or 10 times that xdm was started. if xdm
> starts too often in too short a time (say 5+ times in a minute), then
> terminate.

  start)
    if [ $run_xdm = 1 ]
    then
      echo -n "Starting X display manager: xdm"
      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
      echo "."
    fi
  ;;

The script only runs xdm once.  The problem is that xdm restarts the X
server whenever the X server exits.  (This happens whenever a user logs out.)


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu


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