Xorg ICE vs. Xfce4 (4.2-RC3) needs fixing /etc/rc.d/cleartmp

Jose M Rodriguez josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Sun Jan 9 09:35:01 PST 2005


Brooks Davis escribió:

>On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:11:30AM +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
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>>Brooks Davis escribió:
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>>>Could you please try the following patch?  It does the same thing, but
>>>gives the inode paranoid a way to disable the creation of these
>>>directories or only create the ones they need.
>>>
>>>-- Brooks
>>>
>>>Index: rc.d/cleartmp
>>>===================================================================
>>>RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp,v
>>>retrieving revision 1.11
>>>diff -u -p -r1.11 cleartmp
>>>--- rc.d/cleartmp	7 Oct 2004 13:55:25 -0000	1.11
>>>+++ rc.d/cleartmp	7 Jan 2005 00:31:51 -0000
>>>@@ -35,5 +35,7 @@ run_rc_command "$1"
>>># restarting X
>>>#
>>>rm -f /tmp/.X[0-9]-lock
>>>-rm -fr /tmp/.X11-unix
>>>-mkdir -m 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix
>>>+if [ -n ${clear_tmp_xdirs} ]; then
>>>+	rm -fr ${clear_tmp_xdirs}
>>>+	mkdir -m 1777 ${clear_tmp_xdirs}
>>>+fi
>>>Index: defaults/rc.conf
>>>===================================================================
>>>RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf,v
>>>retrieving revision 1.235
>>>diff -u -p -r1.235 rc.conf
>>>--- defaults/rc.conf	15 Dec 2004 12:39:28 -0000	1.235
>>>+++ defaults/rc.conf	7 Jan 2005 00:30:49 -0000
>>>@@ -443,6 +443,8 @@ linux_enable="NO"	# Linux binary compati
>>>svr4_enable="NO"	# SysVR4 emulation loaded at startup (or NO).
>>>osf1_enable="NO"	# Alpha OSF/1 emulation loaded at startup (or NO).
>>>clear_tmp_enable="NO"	# Clear /tmp at startup.
>>>+clear_tmp_xdirs="/tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.font-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix"
>>>+			# Directories needed by X11
>>>ldconfig_insecure="NO"	# Set to YES to disable ldconfig security 
>>>checks
>>>ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib 
>>>/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg"
>>>			# shared library search paths
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I recall putting this in a conf PR, try a follow-up.
>>
>>But I think your patch is a little bit wrong
>>
>>I never like the way X11 is  taken by  /etc/rc.d/cleartmp.  none must be 
>>do after the run_rc_command.
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>That's easy enough to fix.
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>>If we need do this from the base system (Thing that I doubt more and 
>>more), this must be implementing a new /etc/rc.d/clearx11tmp (this may 
>>be do in the main /etc/rc.d/cleartmp, like in sendmail), with all the bits:
>>clear_x11tmp_enable, clear_x11tmp_dirs, ...
>>
>>But I must point that:
>>
>>X11 is now mostly a ports thing, not a base system component.  If this 
>>can be take from ports (I send-pr this also), this must be the path to 
>>the solution.  I put a simple script from libs, but I can work and rcNG 
>>enabled thing if prefered.
>>
>>This is not what x11 really needs.  x11 only needs some like this: mkdir 
>>-p ... && chown root:wheel ... && chmod 01777 ... .  this may be 
>>prefered by the x11 team.
>>
>>This can be taken both from base and ports without too much problem.  
>>The only secondary effect of this I know is that you may polite /tmp 
>>entries twice, with is not a real pain to the whole boot process.
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>My worry with using your patch is that localpkg is run quite late in the
>startup process, well after X may have tried to start if xdm is run from
>/etc/ttys.  If package startup scripts could run anywhere in the order,
>a script in the port would be obvious solution, but that's not the case.
>
>-- Brooks
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You're molsty wrong.  init launch gettys after rc has finished (and also 
localpkg).

--
  josemi


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