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small bug in the xdm distributed with RH 7 (and rawhide)
- To: alan(at-nospam)redhat.com
- Subject: small bug in the xdm distributed with RH 7 (and rawhide)
- From: Ariel Biener <ariel(at-nospam)fireball.tau.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:27:43 +0200 (IST)
- cc: Israeli Linux Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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Hi Alan,
As usual, I don't know who to forward it to, and you seem to always
deal with stuff so swiftly :)
So, the small bug is actually the fact that /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
doesn't exist in the RedHat 7 and RawHide X11 distributions.
This causes a few problems, among which:
Trying to limit access via the /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess file or
trying to start xdm without the local display, which is configured in
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers doesn't work.
The xdm-config tells xdm where to find those magic files, and when it
doesn't find xdm-config, it just runs with the defaults.
A simple strace -f xdm shows that clearly. I installed the xdm-config
from the 6.2 release, and it fixed all the problems.
best,
--Ariel
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Ariel Biener
e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il
PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html
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