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RE: [TCLUG:3548] xdm



It should only kill the xsnows started by the user typing the killall.  I
suppose that if that was the root user, all xsnows would die.  But a
normal user shouldn't be able to kill a process that was started by xinit
or xdm. 

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Tom Cross wrote: 

> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Peter Lukas wrote:
> 
> > Yes, xsnow should be killed off at the start of the new session
> > automagically.  If not, you can have it stopped by adding 
> > "killall xsnow || echo -n" to GiveConsole.  I'm pretty sure this isn't
> > necessary.
> 
> Not that I expect anyone to answer this, but I'm just curious...
> 
> If I have a linux "server" and many X terminal clients that connect to it
> via xdm, and each has, lets say, xsnow running on it...  And someone logs
> in and the "killall xsnow..." runs, would it kill all of the xsnows?  
> 
> I'm sure there would be a way to do this with multiple, independant xdm
> login screens.  Might have to keep track of the pids of each seperately
> for each xdm...
> 
> Not that this is usefull, it would just be cool to scare away some of the
> Windows freaks that like to tour our building and mock us for our rather
> simple looking login screens.
> 
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