[7049] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.2Q: xlogin/end_session
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 5 14:43:05 1991
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 14:42:44 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: pit-manager
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.2Q
Display type: apa16
megapel
What were you trying to do?
Have my .logout file do something that takes more than a few
seconds.
What's wrong:
I get an "Alarm clock" error in my console, then an error
stating that my xsession exited with a non-zero exit status.
What should have happened:
I see no reason why .logout should not be able to run long
programs. In fact, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to
do something like run an xterm in my .logout and not have the
logout complete until the xterm exits.
Perhaps the alarm is meant to protect people from clicking on
the logout button and then not being logged out. I say feh.
There is only so far we can go protecting people. If people
want to run something in their .logout file, then they should
be able to run it.
In any case, protection should not go so far that it becomes a
problem. All I do in my .logout is purge mappings to
filesystems and destroy all of the ticket files in /tmp that I
own. This doesn't take more than half a minute, and it times
out.
I've seen several people report this problem in olc.
jik
