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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:56:59 -0400
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From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
Subject: RXVT: Launching the root window/login shell
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My "Native" launcher uses a Windows Shortcut (PIF):
COMMAND.COM /c C:\CYGWIN\bin\login.exe, and
login.exe starts my passwd-specified shell in the DOS-like window.  For me 
this takes care of who-i-am [Superbiskit, not Administrator] and similar 
problems.

I tried converting this approach to using RXVT.  Whatever login.exe does, I 
want it to do before launching my shell.  I can do  START 
[cygpath]\rxvt.exe . . . . with no "-e" specified.  And, because I've seen 
it in the examples, I imagine I can do "-e /bin/bash --login" but that will 
not [I think] initialize the ENV correctly.

It seemed the logical thing, so I did "-e /bin/login Superbiskit"
And my screen went black and the machine locked up so completely that all I 
could do was hit the power button.  I'll guess that it relates to how login 
passes off its terminal assignment to bash but I don't even know how to 
gather enough information to see what's happening.  That looks like a bug!

Any  ideas?

For example, could I put "/usr/bin/rxvt . . . -e /bin/bash" as the "shell" 
parameter in PASSWD?  In other words, would login take the entire tail of 
the record as the program to execute?

If this were a "real" *Nix, and I were on another X-Server, the login would 
preceed launching XTerm [IIRC].  Actually, as my memory clears, I think I 
had to TELNET to the other machine to negotiate the login and launch XTerm 
from the telnet "console".  The best analog of that would be START /bin/sh 
starter.sh, with starter.sh and having the starter.sh script do the login 
[wouldn't that spawn a second bash?] before doing "exec rxvt"

Maybe, while I play around with some of these things, somebody who knows 
what they're doing can send me the answer that's obvious to the most casual 
observer.

David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate, All around nice guy.
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