[ILUG] Just a quickie

[Kenn Humborg]

> I tend to install machines to init level 3, and then telinit 5 when
> I'm sure X is happy (and edit /etc/inittab obviously)

I've often wondered about this:  Why is the X display manager 
(xdm, kdm, gdm, whatever) run from inittab, rather than from a
rc.d/init.d script?

I've made a init script for X on my RH6.2 box and it works fine.
(And doesn't re-run rc.local when I want to start/stop X.)

And on a related note, has anyone found the best place to
start an ssh-agent so that you get a new agent when:

o  You log in on the console
o  You telnet in
o  You ssh in without forwarding the previous agent
o  You log in via gdm/kdm/xdm 
o  You start an 'su -' session.

and have it die when the session exits (and don't start
one when you type startx).

First correct answer gets a pint.

Some clues:  don't start an agent if the environment 
variable SSH_AGENT_SOCK exists.  Starting in .bash_profile
and killing in .bash_logout doesn't work because 
.bash_logout won't always be run (e.g. logging out of GNOME).

I'd hate to have to stick checks all over the place (shell 
startup scripts, xinit scripts, X display manager stuff).
That would be just *ugly*.

Later,
Kenn