[you don't have to CC me on messages to debian-devel] On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:49:26PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > lab == lots of people == lots of NCD xterms == lots of quick logins to the > > > DEC Unix server at the beginning of a lab... sheesh > > > > Quick logins don't trigger the termination of the server. > > > > It's a login, followed by an immediate logout, followed by an immedate > > login, repeat 4 times, that causes it. > > Okay, my error, I was under the impression that it was fast spawning of > whatever it is that supplies the display to a client. No, xdm only pays attention to having to invoke the server binary: spawn X server toss up login widget user logs in login widget is killed user session starts user session dies, cores, whatever server exits Rinse. Repeat. -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. branden@deadbeast.net | -- Russian saying http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ |
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