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From: wswietse@svbs01.bs.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema)
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Subject: Re: selection_svc
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Date: 9 Aug 90 09:06:31 GMT
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zeek@gamma.net.com (Jim Zeek) writes:

>I get the following error when exiting suntools. It appears right after
>the login prompt that comes up.

>sparky login: selection_svc exiting: Hangup

At the end of /etc/rc.local, we added a line with

	echo 'selection_svc&'| su nobody

This makes the selection_svc 'resident' (improves sunview startup time)
and als avoids some security problems. If nobody does not have an
interactive shell, pick some other low-power user id.