Re: Possible flaw in XFree?

[Vilmos Soti <vilmos () vilmos org>]

Hello,

On Friday, June 28 2002, Nuno Branco wrote:

> try to start your Xserver with the command
>
> [root@machine branco]$ startx && exit
>
> Maybe it will do the trick :)

No, it will not do the trick. What happens if the user manages to
crash X thus it returns a failure? The "&& exit" won't get executed.

You could either do a

[root@machine branco]$ startx; exit

or, even better, try

[root@machine branco]$ exec startx

And one more thing... DO NOT RUN X AS ROOT!!! AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE
LOGGED IN AS ROOT MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE HASH SIGN!!!

Vilmos