From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 18:27:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7F51065676 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:27:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2FE8FC16 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:27:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m63IRSDn037829 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:27:20 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20080703182720.GA65961@thought.org> References: <20080703021344.GA73949@thought.org> <20080703153620.GA37232@torus.slightlystrange.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080703153620.GA37232@torus.slightlystrange.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Subject: Re: to shell (and X window System) wizards. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:27:25 -0000 On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:36:20PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:13:50PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > would this works, say in .zlogin, to say that X is up: > > > > if [ -e /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ] > > then > > echo "X is up." > > exit 0; > > else > > echo "No X yet" > > exit 1; > > fi > > > > or is there something more clever? > > I'm not sure if it's any cleverer, but I would probably make a call to > pgrep(1) instead of relying on the existence of a file that might exist, > even if X isn't running (unusual, but it does happen now and then, here at > least) - something like > > if (pgrep "Xorg") > then > echo "X is up." > exit 0 > else > echo "No X yet..." > exit 1 > fi i don't remember using pgrep last time, but it seems more failsafe, so thankee. i seem to recall that /tmp/.X11* is zapped during powerdown, butt for ssure, X has Got to be the the proc table:-) gary > > ... should do the trick. > > And bear in mind that ~/.zlogin is run *after* ~/.zshrc, whereas ~/.zprofile > is run *before* it. It might matter, depending on what you are trying to do. > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org