6On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Lionel Lecoq wrote:
> --- Vern W Heesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I notice that this has left /usr/X11R6/bin/X as a symbolic link to
> > I did a fresh install of mandrake8.1 on my laptop 2 days ago and it shows X 
> > linking to XWrapper
> This is the clean way to work. In the end effect, the server /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 
>will be run
> (at least for 4.x.x - for 3.3.3 it will be a different server for different video 
>cards) the
> symlink could go directly to the server (it does in my distribution). However, going 
>directly to
> the server is a security hole, this is why making the detour through XWrapper is 
>cleaner...
> Lionel

Most versions of Xwrapper sanitize the environment, and start /etc/X11/X,
which should be a symlink to XFree86 in /usr/X11R6 (or thereabouts) (or,
if you still use v3, whichever XF86_blah you use).

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