[1806] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Big zephyr problems on lola-granola running 4.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 17 16:59:30 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:59:01 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1805] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
> zwgc runs automatically as start of my login process. When I logged
> in to this 4.2-Athena machine today, I almost immediately lost my
> subs.
Dunno why this is.
> When I noticed they were gone, I killed zwgc and re-ran it from an
> xterm. Later, I exited the xterm. A few seconds later, zwgc was
> gone. I've found that this is reproducable: If I run zwgc from an
> xterm and exit the xterm, zwgc dies a couple of seconds later.
If you run zwgc in the foreground, it is expected to give you your
prompt back but exit when your shell exits. That's independent of
whether it's displaying primarily via X or via the tty. That seems
kind of bogus given the common modes of operation, but it's a little
hard to make sense out of it otherwise, since zwgc *can* output via
other methods even if the primary output device is X. (Perhaps "zwgc
-disable tty" should operate differently, and the default invocation
of zwgc should disable the tty output driver.)
So this isn't a bug; you should run "zwgc &" for this case.
