On 2/6/07, Theo Band <theo.band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Guillermo Garron wrote: > On 2/5/07, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 15:43 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: >> > On 2/3/07, Todd Cary <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > Theo - >> > ><snip> >> >> > > Todd >> > >> > I really like your aproach to this, so i wrote a small guide, to do >> > it, you can read it here. >> > >> > http://linux.go2linux.org/?q=node/15 >> >> Excellent! However, if some newer users follow the guide, they may >> wonder why the lines subsequent to the "exec ..." have no effect. To >> forestall questions you might want to mention that. > Can you please help with that, 'cause I could be one of those users > asking that :) > > regards, > > exec means replace the current shell by the command specified. Everything that follows is therefor not executed. If you remove the exec then it will work as well, and the commands after will get executed in sequence _after_ the vncserer dies. This might be handy is some occasions like starting and stopping ssh agents: cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER eval $(ssh-agent) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc kill $SSH_AGENT_PID exit Theo
thank you very much! regards, -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://feeds.feedburner.com/go2linux http://www.go2linux.org _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
