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From: jsd@esl.ESL.COM (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Instant Ignition & xsession
Message-ID: <325@esl.ESL.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 90 19:11:50 GMT
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Reply-To: jsd@bambam.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: ESL Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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> eric@hpfcda.HP.COM (Eric Flink) writes:
>
> For example, move /usr/bin/X11/X to /usr/bin/X11/X.real.  Then recreate
> /usr/bin/X11/X as a shell script which looks like:

Assuming this works for starting X, shouldn't it work for starting xsession?
And if so, then since xsession is passed the PID of user logging on then
shouldn't I beable to make xsession into a script and load the user's
environment (".kshrc" and ".profile" or whatever) and then exec 
xsession.real?

I tried the following script and it didn't work.  Should it have worked?

#! /bin/ksh
if [ $1 = "-userId" ] 
then
	Home=$(grep $2 /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f6)

	. $Home/.profile
	. $Home/.kshrc

fi
exec /usr/bin/X11/xsession.real $*

-- 
Jeff Dalton, ESL Inc.                    Real programmers can write 
jsd@esl.com                                 Fortran in any language.