From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 15 8:31:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF171507F for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:31:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA13707; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:30:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA00496; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:30:33 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:30:33 -0700 Message-Id: <199903151630.JAA00496@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Malone Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, where did rc.local go? In-Reply-To: <9903150929.aa16138@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <199903150500.WAA28622@mt.sri.com> <9903150929.aa16138@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > That "can't happen" as init make sure xdm can't fork too fast w/out > > disabling itself. Unless it happened that the "xdm" binary had a bug in > > it that caused 'nodaemon' to be ignored, which would cause the inferior > > xdm process to fork un-beknownst to the original xdm process. > > I think it wasn't as straight forward as init spawning too many xdm's. > I think it might have been xdm that was doing the forking, probably due > to some difference in the environment in which it was invoked (sigmask > maybe?). It shouldn't be forking at all with the '-nodaemon' parameter. > If someone is really interested I can try to reproduce it and > get some more info - but I think it is just safest to start it from > rc.local. Then it won't get re-started if xdm dies. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message