RH & X Question

[ddm at pizzashack.org (Derek D. Martin)]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:46:15PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:37:11PM -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote:
> > > I know I can change the default run level, but that makes all logins
> > > go to X and it leaves X running all the time.  I don't want X chewing
> > > up resources on a machine that is mostly just a light weight server.
> > 
> > Start up X in the login scripts of people you want to log in to X?
> 
> But I also want to have the original login to go away.  I want
> something like:
> 
>   startx & ; logout

Close.  Put this in your .profile instead:

  # don't run startx in the background
  startx
  exit

This way, while the user is in X, the .profile stops executing,
waiting for startx to exit.  As soon as they log out of their X
session, the .profile will continue and call the shell exit, which
should log them out.


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