Re: No work on distributed HOME-directories
Dwight Schauer (dschauer@vcsd.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:14:09 -0500
Why not put it under /tmp/username where username is the user name of the user
Gerd Heide wrote:
> Hallo Ethan,
>
> thanks for the slippy answer. Afterstep work fine with socket under /tmp and
> a only user.
> If I quit the windowmanager, socket isn't deleted. Then it's impossible for
> another user, to log on with afterstep.
>
> Please help me once again.
>
> Gerd Heide
>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ethan wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Gerd Heide wrote:
> >
> > > we have a problem with AfterStep, version 1.7.90, and HOME-directories.
> > >
> > > Now AfterStep creates sockets in HOME-directories. This is very bad!
> > > Often HOME-directories are realised on "distributed filesystems" using NFS
> > > or AFS, e.g.
> >
> > Ouch. The inherited pipes we used before were switched to UNIX domain
> > named sockets to allow modules to be run by a program other than AfterStep
> > (eg, a shell). However, this would certainly cause problems under your
> > circumstances.
> >
> > > What is the solution? Can we put the sockets to a local filesystem
> > > ( /tmp,...) ?
> >
> > Using a local filesystem would probably be the best solution. To change
> > the directory AfterStep uses for the socket, change the following line
> > in src/afterstep/module.c (should be around line 74):
> >
> > sprintf(tmp, "%s/connect.%s", AFTER_NONCF, display_string);
> >
> > Change AFTER_NONCONF to whatever you like, such as "/tmp":
> >
> > sprintf(tmp, "%s/connect.%s", "/tmp", display_string);
> >
> > That should do the trick. The modules read an X property set by
> > AfterStep, so they shouldn't require any changes.
> >
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> > Ethan Fischer
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> >
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