Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:42:51 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur?= Ivarsson <totii@est.is> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Michael Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 and /tmp Message-ID: <3468ED7B.167EB0E7@est.is> References: <3.0.32.19971111000527.009999f0@lafcol.lafayette.edu> <199711111558.IAA01571@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Michael Knoll writes:
> > I moved my /tmp directory to /usr/tmp, and I failed to copy the
> > permissions. I noticed on a friends BSD box the permissions are set up as
> > drwxrwxrwt. How do I set the t? What does it man?
>
> It's the "sticky" bit. Originally, it was used for executables, it told
> older versions of UNIX to save the text segment of the program in the
> swap space as long as possible; this was a way to increase the
> performance of system utilities that were run very often, like sh and
> ls. On a directory, it tells the system to only allow the owner of a
> file to delete it, very important for tmp directories.
>
> > Also, I installed X11, and started XDM in a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
> > When it runs, the server(SVGA_???) goes up to 97% cpu time, and I can't log
> > in locally. But, remote connections work, but I lose CPU clocks.
> >
> > If I start XDM from a shell as root, it all works fine.
> >
> > Where should I be automatically starting xdm on boot?
>
> I do mine in /etc/rc.local, which is the equivalent of
NOT
I got the same problem here! I think we need sleep or something
into the start script or something is not already set up when
xdm is started. In rc.local everything seems to be ok!
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Here's the line I use:
>
> echo -n 'starting local daemons:'
>
> # put your local stuff here
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm && echo -n ' xdm'
>
> Pretty straightforward stuff.
>
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>
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