Dominik Vogt wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:26:13AM -0400, tstout wrote:
>
>
>>whoa! thanks for getting back to me so quickly!! you rock!
>>
>>anyway, i didn't provide a whole lot of info because i figured this might be a
>>fairly common issue, as my installation is all very generic and off-the-shelf.
>>
>>anyway, the popup is a gnome dialog box. when i run the program kppp (or any of
>>the included redhat config apps) from the command line (so far i've tried it in
>>xterm and rxvt), it runs fine. what happens is that the "executable" is
>>actually just linked to a program called 'consolehelper' that checks
>>authentication rules through pam, then calls the appropriate program in a
>>'semi-sudo' type of context. arguments are passed transparently, but i don't
>>actually RUN the program -- its kinda like a local proxy server of sorts.
>>
>>so the "new format" just saves me from running a shell process with each
>>program. and that actually makes sense -- now with the 'exec exec kppp', i'm
>>not running a shell process, which is why it worked before (when i WAS running a
>>shell process with the 'exec kppp'). is there a way to force a shell process on
>>a menu item? i'm sure that would solve this...
>>
>>
>
>Just omit one of the "exec"s. I know it's a bit confusing: the
>first "exec" (or "Exec") is the fvwm command. Everything behind
>it is passed to the shell:
>
> Exec exec kppp
> ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
> | |________ command passed to the shell
> |________________ Fvwm command
>
>So your former "exec kppp" should work too:
>
> exec kppp
> ^^^^ ^^^^
> | |___________ command passed to the shell
> |________________ Fvwm command
>
>
>
>>>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:51:47 +0200
>>>From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
>>>To: Tony Stout <tstout_at_gojira.lv-426.net>, fvwm <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
>>>Subject: Re: FVWM: config question
>>>Mail-Followup-To: Tony Stout <tstout_at_gojira.lv-426.net>, fvwm <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
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>>>
>>>On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:20:25PM -0400, Tony Stout wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>i just upgraded from fvwm95 (2.0.43d) to the current release of 2.4.15.
>>>>i've successfully updated all my configs, and everything seems to be
>>>>running nicely.
>>>>
>>>>redhat 8.0 uses the package consolehelper/usermode to route specific
>>>>authentication requests through pam. in 2.0.43 (calling the needed
>>>>program with a simple "exec" statement - like 'exec kppp'), the gnome
>>>>popup would appear, ask for the root password, accept/deny, and run the
>>>>program as appropriate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>i'm now finding that when i use the new format
>>>>('Exec exec kppp'),
>>>>
>>>>
>>>It's not really a new format. it just saves you running a shell
>>>process for each application you start this way. This is achieved
>>>by the "exec" shell command.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>i get a nifty popup saying "Invalid Call to Subprocess".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Fvwm does not use popup windows, so it must come from your shell
>>>(highly unlikely) or kppp itself. Can you identify which program
>>>opened the popup window? If not, using FvwmIdent should help.
>>>
>>>Check your kppp installation. Does it work when invoked on the
>>>command line? Possibly it expects some environtment variable to
>>>be set.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>i'm sure this is probably a simple config issue, and although i know i
>>>>could modify each entry in the 'menus' config file, i'm hoping there is
>>>>a global method to solve this.
>>>>
>>>>btw, i'm running an out-of-the-box version of redhat 8.0. i downloaded
>>>>the source for 2.4.15, compiled it with defaults, and installed. i
>>>>modified/added entries for gdm to call fvwm directly, so i'm not using
>>>>any gnome session-management. ideally, i'd like to keep them as
>>>>separate as possible.
>>>>
>>>>any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>
>Ciao
>
>Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
>
>
>
i tried modifying my config to use "exec kppp", and i get the same gnome
error as when the line reads "Exec exec kppp". when i try "kppp" in
fvwmconsole, i get "[FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command
'kppp'" (as expected). using "exec kppp" in fvwmconsole, i get the
gnome error (above). if, however, i use "xterm -e kppp", i get a shell
and the authentication step proceeds properly. its almost as if the
exec statement is not using a shell process at all, but instead calling
the link directly.
like i said, it worked just fine in 2.0.43. any ideas?
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Received on Mon Sep 08 2003 - 17:49:37 BST