[20952] in Athena Bugs
Re: possible problem with certain xss modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Oct 22 17:20:25 2002
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:21:11 -0400
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Cc: peeto de la noche <gamache@mit.edu>
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We (the OLCs) were discussing the xss modules in a recent OLC
meeting. The following idea came up:
Wouldn't it be simpler to have one simple xss module that does
something easy (and non-offensive to the X server) like bounce the
Athena owl around the screen or something (similar to the way an
empty Athena machine looks)? xss could be configured to run that
module and only that module by default. If a given user wanted to
run the others, they would be there, but that way all default xss
installations would be damned hard to break. Seems to me we've have
several problems with xss modules on the Suns, and this would
eliminate any future problems....
I know I'll get flamed for this....
-Jon
At 5:09 PM -0400 on 10/22/02, peeto de la noche wrote:
>Hi there. An OLC user <peteri> informed us that certain xscreensaver
>modules would hang his Sun Blade 100 when left on for a while. We've
>determined that the guilty modules are 'compass' and 'goop'. Other
>users have reported similar lossage, so I figured it should be brought
>to your attention.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-pete gamache
> Athena Online Consultant
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