X -broadcast

[Brett]

Hi,

Have been using X -broadcast to connect to a XDM server on my network for 
months now.  However, when another user of cygwin tries, it doesn't work.  
I've tested it on a couple different XP machines, each with Cygwin installed 
for ALL USERS.

I can resolve this problem by removing the /tmp/XWin.log file manually.  It 
seems that this file is written by the last person to successfully start an X 
Window, and the permissions are 644.

Maybe if the file was written 664, or a different file was written for each 
$LOGNAME, this problem might go away.

Here is what I've come up with that works for me: a startx script to start X:

-
# startx
rm -f /tmp/XWin.log

  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo File could not be deleted
exit
  fi

X -broadcast  /dev/null 21 
-

I'd be grateful for thoughts on a better solution.

Re: X -broadcast

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Brett wrote:

 Hi,

 Have been using X -broadcast to connect to a XDM server on my network
 for months now.  However, when another user of cygwin tries, it doesn't
 work.  I've tested it on a couple different XP machines, each with
 Cygwin installed for ALL USERS.

 I can resolve this problem by removing the /tmp/XWin.log file
 manually.  It seems that this file is written by the last person to
 successfully start an X Window, and the permissions are 644.

 Maybe if the file was written 664, or a different file was written for
 each $LOGNAME, this problem might go away.

 Here is what I've come up with that works for me: a startx script to
 start X:

 -
 # startx
 rm -f /tmp/XWin.log

   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
 echo File could not be deleted
 exit
   fi

 X -broadcast  /dev/null 21 
 -

 I'd be grateful for thoughts on a better solution.

Have a separate /tmp for each user -- execute the following once for each
user account:

mount -fu $USERPROFILE\\Local Settings\Temp /tmp

and all of your users should be able to start X the regular way with no
interference.
Igor
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