selection_svc

Wietse Venema wswietse at svbs01.bs.win.tue.nl
Thu Aug 9 19:06:31 AEST 1990


zeek at gamma.net.com (Jim Zeek) writes:

>I get the following error when exiting suntools. It appears right after
>the login prompt that comes up.

>sparky login: selection_svc exiting: Hangup

At the end of /etc/rc.local, we added a line with

	echo 'selection_svc&'| su nobody

This makes the selection_svc 'resident' (improves sunview startup time)
and als avoids some security problems. If nobody does not have an
interactive shell, pick some other low-power user id.



More information about the Comp.sys.sun mailing list