Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52:
> In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command
> startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file
> ~/.xinitrc :
>
>
> sessid="${HOSTNAME:-$(uname -n)}-${DISPLAY##*:}"
>
> # Send output to file
> #
> logfile="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME}/xinit-${sessid}.log"
> : > "$logfile"
> chmod go-rwx "$logfile"
> exec > "$logfile" 2>&1
> unset logfile
>
>
> If the environment variable XDG_CACHE_HOME is set, the output from X is written
> to, e.g., "${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/xinit-0.log" otherwise to "~/init-0.log".
Sorry, should read
to, e.g., "${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/xinit-debian-0.log" otherwise to
"~/xinit-debian-0.log" on a computer named "debian".
>
> Regards,
> Jörg-Volker.
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