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| [8506] | 1 | .TH ELMER 8 "4 June 1996" |
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| 2 | .ds ]W MIT Athena |
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| 3 | .SH NAME |
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| 4 | elmer \- set up user environment and run global Xsession |
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| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 6 | .nf |
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| 7 | elmer |
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| 8 | .fi |
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| 9 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 10 | In order to fit the Athena login model into SGI's login model, the |
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| 11 | Athena login process had to be broken into pieces. When not encumbered |
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| 12 | with worrying about a vendor login system, xlogin could simply exec |
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| 13 | Xsession, passing on all of the important pieces of the login |
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| 14 | environment. This is not possible when maintaining SGI's |
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| 15 | model. Therefore \fIelmer\fR exists to reproduce the appropriate |
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| 16 | environment. It sits between \fIxdm\fR and Athena's global Xsession |
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| 17 | file, and is only run by \fIxdm\fR. It performs the following tasks: |
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| 18 | .TP |
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| 19 | * It informs \fInanny\fR that the user is logging in, and acquires |
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| 20 | assorted information needed to start the login. |
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| 21 | .TP |
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| 22 | * It acquires a new AFS PAG. |
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| 23 | .TP |
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| 24 | * It redirects the standard output and error to the |
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| 25 | console window tty. |
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| 26 | .TP |
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| 27 | * It sets up the environment. |
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| 28 | .TP |
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| 29 | * It execs Xsession. |
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| 30 | .TP |
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| 31 | * It waits for Xsession to exit, then tells \fInanny\fR the user |
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| 32 | is logging out, and exits. |
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| 33 | .SH FILES |
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| 34 | .PP |
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| 35 | /etc/athena/login/Xsession global Xsession script |
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| 36 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 37 | xdm(1), xlogin(8), nanny(8) |
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| 38 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 39 | Craig Fields, MIT I/S DCNS |
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| 40 | .br |
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| 41 | Copyright (c) 1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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