[17135] in Athena Bugs
athena xlogin doc bug (report and patch)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luka)
Sat Sep 4 03:11:40 1999
Message-Id: <199909040711.DAA12806@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: luka@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 03:11:30 -0400
From: Luka <luka@MIT.EDU>
short description:
documentation bug: athena's xlogin (8) man page does not mention that the
default session script is /etc/athena/login/Xsession.
more details:
the xlogin (8) manpage describes the command line flag '-session' and
X resource *sessionScript used to set the session script which it executes
on login. alas, it never documents the default value, which is rather
significant since ***athena relies on the default behavior***.
The excerpt from xlogin's XtResource struct initialization shows the default.
/afs/dev.mit.edu/source/src-current/athena/etc/xdm/xlogin/xlogin.c (162,163):
{"sessionScript", XtCFile, XtRString, sizeof(String),
Offset(session), XtRImmediate, (caddr_t) "/etc/athena/login/Xsession"},
the fact that this is not mentioned in the manpage is a documentation bug,
which the following patch would fix.
patch:
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--- /mit/source/athena/etc/xdm/xlogin/xlogin.8 Sat Jan 23 00:01:30 1999
+++ /tmp/luka/xlogin.8 Sat Sep 4 02:51:40 1999
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
.TP
.B *sessionScript
Name of the global session script to run when logging the user in.
+This defaults to /etc/athena/login/Xsession.
.PP
The following resources may also be specified (typically in Xlogin.local):
.TP
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