On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dan Espen wrote:
> Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se> writes:
> > There seems to be a lot of zombie processes started by fvwm2 (mostly
> > 'sh').
> > Is there something wrong with my rc file?
> > Doing 'ps -AH' shows that these processes where forked by fvwm2.
> > I suspect they are shells that run commands started through the menus.
> > Are these run using 'system()' or 'fork()/execv()'? If run with 'system()'
> > it uses the shell to execute the command, right?
>
> What version of fvwm are you running?
2.4.0
>
> How are you launching programs, show us one of
> your Exec lines.
For example, setting a background on login/restart
AddToFunc InitFunction "I" Module FvwmButtons
+ "I" exec xsetbg /home/marcus/images/fuji.jpg
AddToFunc RestartFunction "I" Module FvwmButtons
+ "I" exec xsetbg /home/marcus/images/fuji.jpg
seems to generate xsetbg zombies after restarting fvwm2.
>
> Do you have "ExecUseShell" in your config file? If so whats it
> set to?
No, I don't
>
> What OS are you using?
Linux 2.4.2-2 Redhat 7.1
I will try and run with this config file on Solaris tomorrow and see what
happens...
>
> Include any other information you think might help us...
I have attached my .fvwm2rc
>
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Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 18:21:22 BST