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Re: [TCLUG:3548] xdm



Generally, xinit executes ~/.xinitrc wish "sh ~/.xinitrc" if it
is not executable, or just "~/.xinitrc" if it is. 

~/.xsession is much more system dependant though, as it is executed
by a configurable XSession script.  Looking through that file on
Debian reveals you do indeed need the executable bit set.  (One 
could consider that a bug, as it's certainly not a feature.)

-Shawn

On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:26:36AM -0600, trammell@nitz.hep.umn.edu wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> Shawn T. Amundson <amundson@gimp.org> wrote:
> 
> >> One (frustrating!) problem I ran in to was that some of the ~/.x*rc
> >> files need to have their execute bits set to run properly, unlike
> >> ~/.cshrc and the like.
> >
> > That should only be the case if you are using non-/bin/sh shell
> > syntax in your ~/.x*rc.  Without the execute bit, it should be executed
> > with /bin/sh.  With the execute bit, it should be executed according
> > to the #!<shell> at the top of the file.
> 
> I guess I don't follow you.  Without the execute bit set, how
> will it execute at all, /bin/sh or anything?
> 
> ==========================================================================
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ cat >foo
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> echo "Hello World"
> ^D
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ ls -l foo
> -rw-r--r--   1 trammell users          30 Jan 21 07:22 foo
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ ./foo
> ./foo: Permission denied.
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ chmod 755 foo
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ ./foo
> Hello World
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ 
> ==========================================================================
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> 
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Shawn T. Amundson               
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