Previously...
> On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 12:39:29PM -0700, martink_at_physics.ubc.ca wrote:
> >
> > Cheers all!
> >
> > I have found that I cannot start fvwm if my noclobber variable is set. It
> > appears that fvwm95 cannot clobber (overwrite) a file /tmp/fvwmrcaxxxxx
> > that it creates and therefore cannot start. This file is created after
> > fvwm is executed, because deleting any fvwmrc files in /tmp before execing
> > fvwm does not solve the problem.
>
> Note that this is the wrong place to ask questions about fvwm95. It's
> a spin off of fvwm2 and is not maintained on this list. I don't think
> fvwm95 is actively maintained at all.
>
> > The error message appears in .FVWM2-errors and it's something like
> >
> > sh: FVWM cannot clobber file /tmp/fvwmrcaxxxxxx
> >
> > Question is, how do I have noclobber on and bypass this problem?
>
> Try to explicitly remove the old file. If you start fvwm95 from
> .xinitrc you could try to insert this line before the line that
> starts the WM:
>
> rm /tmp/fvwmrca*
>
> Of course you should only delete your own files :)
>
> Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^
I assume from the choice of fvwm95 that this is a RedHat system. If so
and you start up your session through xdm, the graphical login interface,
then when logging in xdm looks for either a file .xsession or .Xclients in
your home directory. See the script /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession . If neither
is found it executes the script /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients . In this script
there are already a number of file removes executed to clean up. It seems
to me that if you copy this script into your home directory and rename it
to either .xsession or .Xclients then you can add the delete suggested by
Dominik there and be sure that nothing else will change with your login
session.
Tom
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Received on Tue Jun 15 1999 - 06:32:30 BST