Re: how to log into xterm properly?
Re: how to log into xterm properly?
- Subject: Re: how to log into xterm properly?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:51:11 -0500
On Jan 15, 2008 8:09 PM, Ben Byer <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Jan 15, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Patrick Collins wrote:
> >
> > xterm -e login -fp <myusername>
> > With Leopard when I do this, the window is frozen and cannot be
> > closed, and I have found that it is because of the "-fp"..
> No clue -- I just tried that exact command and it works as you
> described it working on Tiger. What's your system configuration? OS
> version? X11app version?
Is this possibly our old friend the path_helper, and the login window
isn't really hung but just waiting for path_helper to v-e-r-y
s-l-o-w-l-y do its thing? The -p causes the new process to inherit
the $PATH (along with the rest of the environment) from the parent,
and if it's a large one, that could be the culprit.
You might try -f (to not require the password) without the -p to see
if that helps.
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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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