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Re: what is /etc/X11/rstart ?



Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> 100673645    0 drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root           49 Feb  1  2006 /etc/X11/rstart/
> 117467479    0 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root           75 Feb  1  2006 /etc/X11/rstart/commands
> 134295622    0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           51 Feb  1  2006 /etc/X11/rstart/commands/x11r6
> 134295623    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1364 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/commands/x11r6/@List
> 134324539    4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1297 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/commands/x11r6/LoadMonitor
> 134324540    4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1294 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/commands/x11r6/Terminal
> 117467480    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1359 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/commands/@List
> 117467481    4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1442 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/commands/ListContexts
> 117467482    4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1550 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/commands/ListGenericCommands
> 151243348    0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           44 Feb  1  2006 /etc/X11/rstart/contexts
> 151243349    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1306 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/contexts/@List
> 151243350    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1286 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/contexts/default
> 151243351    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1552 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/contexts/x11r6
> 100673646    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1711 May 13  2005 /etc/X11/rstart/config
>
> Do you know what package and how installs this and whether it's used?
>   

It seems to come from xutils in sarge.

> All I could find was some function to map a symlink to it from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rstart in a bunch of x related packages' postinsts..

/usr/lib/X11/rstart seems to be their newer location (in xutils/etch),
so the old ones are probably useless now. Some upgrade forgot to remove
them, it's been reported in Bug#382360 xutils: upgrading from sarge,
then purging, leaves /etc/X11/rstart/*

Brice




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