From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 28 23:07:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA27225 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 23:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27199 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 23:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id QAA12815; Thu, 29 May 1997 16:06:58 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19970529160658.41587@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 16:06:58 +1000 From: David Dawes To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall References: <199705290353.EAA16919@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <25691.864880799@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <25691.864880799@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, May 28, 1997 at 09:39:59PM -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 28, 1997 at 09:39:59PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> So rstart is broken by design. Let me guess. This has been argued >> before, and the xfree86 guys won't allow an absolute path to rstartd >> (via say a flag to rstart).... :| > >I don't recall that it was ever discussed. I've certainly never heard >of anyone actually using it, at least not until just now. :-) Right. When I saw the original message, my first reaction was "Hey, there IS actually someone using rstart!". It was missing from the last few binary dists we (XFree86) produced, and we didn't even get one complaint about it. It was missing because it gets installed in /usr/bin by default. From 3.3 on, it will be installed in /usr/X11R6/bin, and the postinst script will give people the option of installing a link to it in /usr/bin. My next reaction was why not put /usr/X11R6/bin in the path in your shell's rc file? As to providing rstart with a way of running rstartd by its absolute path, nobody has suggested it before. If you think that's a good thing to do, send us a patch implementing it (to XFree86@XFree86.org). David