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From: geo@george.austin.ibm.com (George Noren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: "Exit" from mwm
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Date: 27 Mar 91 14:21:27 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.040855.24883@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>,
ghe@physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes:
> 
> In article <IVAN%NEPJT.91Mar26164323@nepjt.ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>,
ivan%nepjt@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado) writes:
> |> 
> |> John & Others,
> |> 
> |> The above procedure will work so long you start "X" through the command:
> |> 
> |> open xinit
> |> 
> |> This supposedly sets all the "X" processes under the parent process
> |> "mwm", so that the "f.quit_mwm" step will kill all its "X" babies.
> |> It works just fine on our risc's..
> |> 
> |> -Ivan
> |> 
> 
> But 'open' doesn't work on X-Stations. It complaints that /dev/pts/?
> is not the console or an hft workstation, although the man page says
> nothing about 'open' works only on console. 
> 
> Guangliang He
> ghe@physics.orst.edu

Xstations should not be a problem with this discussion.  When you 
"exit" from the login window on an Xstation, it kills mwm and returns
you to the Xserver that is running on the Xstation with a login window
to your boot machine. To kill the Xserver on the Xstation, turn it off 
(power off). The Xstation exists only to run the Xserver, so killing
the Xserver on the Xstation doesn't seem to make sense.

BTW in one of your previous appends about /tmp files - The *.pag files are
there for each Xstation that you have running (where * is some 8 digit number
that is unique to the Xstation).  They serve as a sort of "paging space" for
the Xstation. They go away when you turn off the associated Xstation.

Sincerely,
George Noren

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