Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm using this (subsection) in .xsession: > > $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & > ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & Tsk, tsk! You should have a passphrase on your key. Contemplate this instead. xterm -e ssh-add > exec icewm-session > > But I'm left behind with the ssh-add zombie. Zombies are processes of which the parent has not wait(2)'d on them to transfer the return code. Bad parent. Kill the parent and the zombies will be inherited by init and cleaned up. > Also, if I kill "root_window.pl" that's left as a zombie, too. Since both are ending up as zombies then you know it is the shell that is in trouble. The last command is the exec of icewm-session. The shell may or may not actually exec depending upon the shell and other factors. Try this instead. $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & icewm-session & wait This should have almost the same effect. The X session exits when the xsession script exits. So normally exiting the window manager logs you out. But if root_window.pl is still running the wait will keep the script running longer than before. You may need to kill root_window.pl before the logout happens with this new configuration. Alternately, if you don't care about security and don't have a passphrase on your key then why put it in the background? Just let it run in the foreground. $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null exec icewm-session Personally I add those types of startup customizations to my window manager init function instead. Bob
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