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From: paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: x-windows + startup
Message-ID: <1991May3.172322.23367@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 3 May 91 17:23:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.185317.18419@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, dsk@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Daniel Katz) writes:
|> My .login contains:
|> 
|>         xinit -- /usr/bin/X11/Xsgi -pseudo'

This is probably a bad idea.  Everytime you get a login shell,
.login tries to start an X server.  The default behavior in
3.3.2 is for an X server to be run at startup for you (depending
on chkconfig- see xstart(1), which goes away in 4.0).  Your
xinit may be attempting to start another server (which will 
block until the first server dies, then try to start).

		-Tom
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