On 2/6/07, Theo Band <theo.band at xanadu-wireless.com> wrote: > Guillermo Garron wrote: > > On 2/5/07, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 15:43 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > >> > On 2/3/07, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> 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