Re: how to log into xterm properly?
Re: how to log into xterm properly?
- Subject: Re: how to log into xterm properly?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:06:31 -0800
Why do you need to do the '-e login -fp <username>' what's wrong with
the process you get with just 'xterm'? Since 2.1.0, it's being
started as:
/usr/bin/login -fp <username> xterm
so by adding in the extra options, you're actually causing this to be
run:
/usr/bin/login -fp <username> "xterm -e login -fp <username>"
You shouldn't need that extra login.
--Jeremy
On Jan 15, 2008, at 17:51, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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