On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:24, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Anyway, the check for /usr/X11R6/bin/X to determine wether or not > to start xfs has been removed for quite a while now, as it makes > it difficult for people to start xfs, who don't run an X server > on the same machine and just want to use xfs for network font > serving. >
It seems like the best way to do it would be to still do the check for /usr/X11R6/bin/X, but only if TCP is disabled. You'd have to grep the configuration file to find this out, though. Don't know if that's worth it. > Yes, this will probably upset the people out there who don't want > xfs to start up if they're not using an X server. As I said > above though, people can't have it both ways as we can't read > people's minds. The initscript can be disabled like any other > system service, so people who install xfs from now on, will have > it enabled by default (and it has TCP disabled also by default), > and those who don't actually want to use it or need it, can > disable it themselves as an end user configuration customization. > > I feel this makes life the easiest for the largest amount of > users out there, and that's one of our goals. ;o) -- Eamon Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
