How to save diagnostic mesg from xinit?

by Ning Qi » Wed, 24 Aug 1994 04:41:42

I would like to save diagnostic messages from xinit, so I changed
the line:

<path>/xinit -- ${SERVER-<path>/X} $DISPLAY $PASSTHRU $AUTH

in file <path>/openwin to:

<path>/xinit -- ${SERVER-<path>/X} $DISPLAY $PASSTHRU $AUTH >& /tmp/Xerrors_$USER

where <path> stands for $OPENWINHOME/bin.

When I started openwin the next time, however, I got the error:

openwin: Xerrors_$USER bad number.

Could someone tell me how to fix the problem? Thanks in advance.

Ning

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1. Start X without startx or xinit? (save mem)

Here is the result of a ps -aux :
(with some editing)
root 340 0.0 1.5 304 112 1 S 23:46 0:01 sh /usr/bin/X11/startx
root 351 0.0 1.4 56 108 1 S 23:46 0:00 xinit /usr/X386/lib/X
root 352 7.8 17.4 1418 1276 ? R 23:46 5:01 X -pn
root 353 0.3 5.0 132 372 1 S 23:46 0:11 rxvt -geometry 80x24+
root 354 0.5 7.3 168 540 1 S 23:46 0:22 fvwm
root 357 0.0 4.7 64 344 1 S 23:46 0:00 rclock -geometry 80x8
root 520 0.0 1.4 68 108 1 S 00:20 0:00 /usr/lib/X11/fvwm/Goo
root 358 0.1 7.8 134 572 1 S 23:46 0:04 xload -geometry 80x80
root 360 0.0 5.2 324 384 p0 S 23:46 0:02 -/bin/sh
root 591 0.0 6.2 504 460 p2 T 00:33 0:00 kermit
root 601 0.0 6.2 504 456 p2 T 00:37 0:00 kermit
root 603 0.2 3.2 164 240 p2 S 00:38 0:01 term
root 413 0.1 5.3 328 388 p2 S 23:58 0:03 -/bin/sh
root 412 0.3 4.1 140 304 1 S 23:58 0:10 rxvt
root 606 0.0 2.0 36 148 p2 S 00:39 0:00 trsh
root 633 0.0 3.1 72 228 p0 R 00:50 0:00 ps -aux

My question is that it seems that startx and xinit are taking up a lot of
memory, do you actually need them? I mean is there a way to start X
(forgive my ignorance if it is warranted) without startx or xinit, it seens
to me that a ton of memory would be saved if you dead.

P.S. does anybody know why kermit is loaded twice?????
I mean on my 8Meg system I don't have enough resources to run
Mosaic!

Thanks

-bik

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