From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 29 07:00:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA14303 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 07:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ui-gate.utell.co.uk (ui-gate.utell.co.uk [194.200.4.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA14287 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 07:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utell.co.uk (shift.utell.net [97.3.0.21]) by ui-gate.utell.co.uk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24504; Thu, 29 May 1997 15:00:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from shift.utell.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by utell.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA03916; Thu, 29 May 1997 15:00:20 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199705291400.PAA03916@utell.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: David Dawes cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall reply-to: brian@utell.co.uk In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 May 1997 16:06:58 +1000." <19970529160658.41587@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 15:00:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers 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. Hmmm. It still comes out of the XFree89-contrib port (X32contrib.tgz), although there's no rstartd - just rstartd.real. > My next reaction was why not put /usr/X11R6/bin in the path in your > shell's rc file? As I said to Joerg's posting, I don't agree with this idea. The only place I'm really happy to do this is in my .profile (or if we had login classes, there's good too). > 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). Ok. How about [ -s servername ]. I'll send the patches soon. > David Thanks. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !