Hugh Taylor wrote:
[snip]

included the file below (.xsession and .xinitrc are the same). Any
ideas? Oh, I'm using RedHat 7.3.

------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
# I hope this works

# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
errfile="$HOME/.xsession-errors"
if cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null ; then
    chmod 600 "$errfile"
    exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
else
    errfile=`mktemp -q /tmp/xses-$USER.XXXXXX`
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
    fi
fi

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver &
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--
Hugh Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>/

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Hugh Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>


I'm using .xsession to start xscreensaver and run xmodmap etc. It needs to be executable (chmod o+x .xscreensaver). This works from GDM for me on both RedHat 7.3 and RH 8.0.

What is the purpose of the exec in your tests for the existence of a previous error file?

--
Robert G. Werner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2001/9/11

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