Re: FVWM: fvwm error messages

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:32:08 -0230 (NDT)

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Jose' Manuel Pereira wrote:

> Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat nonexistentfile; read xxx"
>
> The window will then stay until you hit <Ret> in it.

Thanks! That's certainly a very useful debugging hint!

> OTOH, perhaps I misunderstood the whole point and you were trying something
> else...

I just posted that as an example of a script that causes a window to pop
up and disappear quickly. The script I was using was actually a lot longer
so I made up something shorter. The problem I was experiencing, as it
turns out, is that some cron job on my sytem changed the permissions on
my /tmp directory making it not writeable and acusing my syntactically
correct script to crash. I had to log in as root to fix that.

Bye,

Neil

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