From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 07:29:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA05986 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05977 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 07:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA06233; Tue, 23 Apr 96 14:28:48 GMT Message-Id: <9604231428.AA06233@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA188159853; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:30:53 -0600 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:30:53 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: nik@blueberry.co.uk Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, questions@freebsd.org, andreas@knobel.gun.de In-Reply-To: <199604231133.MAA09074@plum.blueberry.co.uk> (message from Nik Clayton on Tue, 23 Apr 1996 12:33:32 +0100 (BST)) Subject: Re: fvwm95 port and process limits / bin/sh problem? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton writes: Nik> So, is this an fvwm problem or a sh problem? Anyone more Nik> qualified than I care to comment? I'm certainly not more qualified ... but I'm not going to let that stop me! In your .fvwmrc file, try putting an & at the end of each Exec statement. That'll allow the /bin/sh's to terminate while the processes they start continue: Exec xterm & Exec xbiff -geometry +30+30 & -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/